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mia

@mia@hcommons.social

Digital Curator, British Library

I do digital, UX and collections stuff in libraries, museums and archives, especially crowdsourcing / digital participation / public history. Formerly @mia_out on twitter. Trying tootfinder to make my posts searchable

Also posting from https://glammr.us/@libcrowds https://zirk.us/@LivingWithMachines https://techhub.social/@BL_DigiSchol

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mia, to random
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Playing with 'Datasets Have Worldviews' https://pair.withgoogle.com/explorables/dataset-worldviews/ before our @BL_DigiSchol reading group discussion of 'the future of metadata'...

'Describing the world around us in any way—whether we’re telling a friend a story or telling a computer about shapes—requires us to choose what information is important to convey and what tools we want to use to convey it.'

mia, to random
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You know how IIIF and the Universal Viewer are really cool? The British Library is creating a product team to contribute to these communities' work and improve access to digital collections

Product Owner (£35-£39k)

Research Software Engineers (£35-£39k)

Senior Test Engineer (£29-£32k)
https://ce0752li.webitrent.com/ce0752li_webrecruitment/wrd/run/ETREC179GF.open?WVID=5071482BMD

jeffjarvis, to random
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Oz wildlife: larvae shed by pythons leads to worm in brain. Everything on that continent can kill ya....

‘Freaky’: Australia’s foraging community shocked after parasitic worm found in woman’s brain https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/aug/31/worm-found-in-womans-brain-australia-how-foraging-wild-greens?CMP=share_btn_tw

mia,
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@jeffjarvis on the other hand it means Australians are excellent at risk assessment. But it did take me about 15 years after moving away to stop shaking out my shoes in case a spider crept in overnight...

mia, to Bloomscrolling
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When did I become the kind of person who gets in from a walk and looks up photos on plantnet? Saw a lovely astrantia by Rochdale Canal in Hebden Bridge and moss-ferns on a dry stone wall near Mytholmroyd

Also saw lots of fireweed, nettles, brambles and some Himalayan balsam

Pretty pink flowers in various stages of opening and going over against a background of greenery and a stone wall

mia, to til
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Today I learned that Margaret Hamilton, of NASA moon mission software engineering fame, also wrote the code for Edward Lorenz' work on chaos theory https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/aug/27/saved-by-a-butterfly-how-chaos-theory-became-the-secret-ingredient-in-my-happy-marriage
#TIL

mia, to random
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Oh nice one, work people!

'British Library acquires unique disc from the KLF plus all of their surviving master tapes' https://www.bl.uk/press-releases/2023/august/british-library-klf-acquisition

mia, to random
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Hi! If you're interested or work in #DigitalHumanities, here's a shortcut to enjoying mastodon.

It's great once you're going but the first steps aren't that intuitive. There aren't algorithmic recommendations for posts or folks to follow, so here's a quick way to kickstart your network:

  1. Sign up to https://hcommons.social/ (if you need a mastodon account)

  2. Add some information and a pic to your profile

  3. Select some or all of the DH folks listed at https://frederik-elwert.github.io/Mastodon-Digital-Humanists/ Save the CSV and import it to your Follow list

  4. Enjoy! You can add or remove folk as you wish. You can add yourself to the list above too

mia, to random
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Generative AI is a big challenge for open data - I've reconsidered sharing my own stuff.

Creative Commons are asking people to get involved in the wider 'beyond copyright' issues.

'Though using CC licenses and legal tools for training data and works produced by generative AI may address some legal uncertainty, it does not solve all the ethical concerns raised, which go far beyond copyright — involving issues of privacy, consent, bias, economic impacts, and access to and control over technology, among other things.
...
For many creators, these and other issues may be a reason not to share their works at all under any terms, not just via CC licensing. CC wants AI to augment and support commons, not detract from it, and we want to see solutions to these concerns to avoid AI turning creators away from contributing to the commons altogether.'

https://creativecommons.org/2023/08/18/understanding-cc-licenses-and-generative-ai/

mia,
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@dahukanna it's frustrating! I'd choose CC-NC but I understand that it's an issue for Wikimedia, and the definition of 'commercial' is so vague that it puts off eg teachers and bloggers but not the proverbial 'bad guys'... but being mushed up and reappearing generative AI isn't just commercial, it's a whole new thing

mia,
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@dahukanna and the whole 'you can opt out... if you have access to robots.txt for the site you're posting on, and actually believe that we'll respect it' is so skeezy. Opt in is the only fair option

fraying, to random
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Wondering out loud for no particular reason what the electric vehicle equivalent of "sugar in the gas tank" might be.

I'm thinking spray foam in the charge port.

mia,
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@fraying I've been wondering about non-destructive things, like vinyl posters on the side of EVs saying 'x brand / driverless cars increase traffic because they don't pay for parking'. Or whatever message would resonate

mia, to ai
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We need a Weizenbaum test for AI | Science

'1. Who will benefit?
2. Who will bear the costs?
3. What will the technology mean for future generations?
4. What will be the implications not just for economies and international security, but also for our sense of what it means to be human?
5. Is the technology reversible?
6. What limits should be imposed on its application?'

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adk0176

#AI #DataScience #hype

jeffjarvis, to random
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Google is right: a robots.txt for AI. Reading content is fair use; the output is generally transformative....
Google says AI systems should be able to mine publishers’ work unless companies opt out https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/aug/09/google-says-ai-systems-should-be-able-to-mine-publishers-work-unless-companies-opt-out?CMP=share_btn_tw

mia,
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@jeffjarvis I'd ask who has the ability to put up a robots.txt for their own content? Not that many folk...

More importantly, what does flipping the question of consent enable for the worst actors on the internet?

joelanman, to random
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Any recommendations for dog toys in the UK? For a spaniel

mia,
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@joelanman cardboard! Anything we recycle is now a dog toy first. You can turn almost anything into a puzzle toy with newspaper and kibble (wrap it or drop kibble into scrunched up newspaper). Balls on ropes work well for our whippet

aronambrosiani, to histodons

Looking for articles on how access to OCR:ed/full-text digitized newspapers is changing historic research practice. I've found a few Swedish articles (by Pelle Snickars, Johan Jarlbrink, David Larsson Heidenblad) but would like to broaden my reach.

Is Lara Putnam, ”The Transnational and the Text-Searchable: Digitized Sources and the Shadows They Cast” American Historical Review 121, no. 2 (2016) the go-to reference? (not looking specifically for the transnational angle)

#histodons @histodons

mia,
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@histodons @aronambrosiani publications are still work in progress but is there anything from @LivingWithMachines that might be relevant?

https://livingwithmachines.ac.uk/achievements/

https://bl.iro.bl.uk/collections/1ecde964-4860-4f66-af33-e2b8ba487bf9?locale=en

mia, to random
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What even is Community Fibre and why do they keep trying to do door-to-door sales at the same addresses?

mia,
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@joelanman but so spammy! Today's guy was probably the 5th in a year

perkinsy, to random
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I learned something this morning: the hidden disability sunflower design is worn by people publicly to indicate they need extra consideration like a seat on public transport.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-04/hidden-disability-sunflower-lanyard-explained/102631220

mia,
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@perkinsy I think there's something to be said for the directness of the 'please offer me a seat' badges that TfL here offer, though it obviously doesn't cover other needs

mia, to random
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Fab to see this from a major org like Museums Association. 'Better procurement is vital for the planet' 'Making spending decisions that enhance social value is one way to embed climate action across decision-making and processes.

Sustainable procurement is about taking a holistic approach to buying and looking at the social impact at all stages of the supply chain.'

But will procurement rules allow it? We're meant to use Amazon, which doesn't help the planet or local businesses

https://www.museumsassociation.org/museums-journal/opinion/2023/07/policy-better-procurement-is-vital-for-the-planet/

Edent, to random
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It is a gorgeous sunny day - and our tree is thriving.

We were a bit concerned with how it would do in the London clay, but with a bit of TLC, a splurge of food, and plenty of water, it is growing up quickly.

Huge thanks to https://www.hardy-eucalyptus.com/ for the plant, accessories, and advice.

mia,
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@Edent the plant net app might have some suggestions. A wildflower mix I got from the pound store seems to have included spinach (?!) which looks a bit similar but not quite the same. Perhaps small seeds have a way of finding their way into other packets

mia, to random
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I've been training for a half marathon for some time now, but have only just done the fundraising page. If you have some cash to spare to help a primary school in Tower Hamlets, east London, give it a go!

https://www.peoplesfundraising.com/fundraising/mia-manorfield-big-half-2023

Bonus dog photo because I don't have time to walk her separately and I've roped her in as training companion

mia,
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Ready or not, here I go...

mia, to random
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My local chemo ward has closed for lack of staff. This means anyone having chemo (or non-chemo meds like me now) has to trek into central London and back again, to a ward that's even busier and just about managing with a skeleton staff.

The staff in my local ward were incredibly skilled and experienced. And that really matters when they're injecting toxic chemicals, or just doing a blood test, or answering the questions that anyone doing chemo has.

The NHS is effectively dying in front of us. And what are we doing about it?

mia, to random
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Two people I know mentioned having covid lately. Stats are tiny* but going up again, which isn't what anyone wants to see. I guess I'll keep masking on the tube and in shops, just in case

https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/

  • I guess including hospital tests and the few people who still test
codingconduct, to random
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'Tis the time of #chi2024 paper writing again!

I made some slides for our PhD students on the evergreen "How to write a CHI paper" that I thought I'd share

YMMV, enjoy, with 🎩 tip to @acagamic and Lisa Anthony.

https://speakerdeck.com/codingconduct/how-to-write-a-good-chi-paper-that-might-just-get-accepted

mia,
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@codingconduct that's so good! I've never thought any of my work would fit into CHI but now I can almost see how some of it would

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