July 31, 2024 by Gary Price
AI Can ChatGPT-4o Be Trusted With Your Private Data? (via WIRED) C-RAG: Certified Generation Risks for Retrieval-Augmented Language Models (preprint, update, via arXiv) Arizona 50 Historical Arizona Newspapers Digitized with National Endowment for the Humanities Grant to Share Stories, Increase Public Access (via State of AZ Sec. of State) BIBFRAME Programme For BIBFRAME Workshop in […]
July 24, 2024 by Gary Price
From a Joint Announcement (via BTAA): The Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA) is excited to announce a partnership with the Next Generation Library Publishing (NGLP) project. This collaboration aims to test and enhance infrastructure solutions for academy-owned scholarly publishing programs that are open source, community-led, and rooted in academic values. The pilot project will create […]
July 21, 2024 by Gary Price
From the University of North Texas Libraries: The Texas Digital Newspaper Program on The Portal to Texas History has reached a huge milestone of over one-million newspaper issues openly available! These one-million newspaper issues comprise 11,256,533 pages, contributed by 226 partners from across Texas, and representing 210 counties. [Clip] The staff in the Digital Newspaper […]
July 14, 2024 by Gary Price
From Archives Portal Europe: DeCoSEAS project launch the web platform Pratinada.net, with 7200 recordings online from Southeast Asia. The web platform Pratinada.net hosts 7200 recordings online from Southeast Asia. It was created by the DeCoSEAS project (Decolonizing Southeast Asian Sound Archives) to make searchable and accessible online sound archives and collections related to music and sound (including interviews, speeches, […]
July 9, 2024 by Gary Price
From Channel 6 (Tulsa): Radio IDL is responsible for one of the largest Blues and Black history sheet music collections in the nation. Now work is being done to archive and digitalize them. Kerry Kudlacek, also known as the “professor of blues” was a collector for 63 years. He said it is his dream to […]
July 1, 2024 by Gary Price
From Internet Archive Canada We at Internet Archive Canada (IAC) are delighted to announce the launch of an exciting new digitization project in collaboration with Library and Archives Canada (LAC). This initiative marks a significant step forward in our mission to provide universal access to all knowledge, leveraging our expertise tn library and archival digitization […]
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June 30, 2024 by Gary Price
From UNT Libraries: The University of North Texas Libraries is excited to release the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Policy Collection in the UNT Digital Library. This collection features over 120 resources about the implementation of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) toward government, legislative and procedural policy. We expect this collection to grow over the […]
June 12, 2024 by Gary Price
From a Library Futures Blog Post: In October 2023, Library Futures gathered a dozen library experts and practitioners to create principles for library ownership of digital books. These principles are meant to establish a foundation of trust between publishers and libraries so that publishers can sell digital books to libraries and libraries can build permanent digital […]
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June 9, 2024 by Gary Price
From The Royal Society: Over 10,000 letters of the astronomer and photographic pioneer Sir John Frederick William Herschel FRS (1792-1871) have been digitised for the first time on the Royal Society’s Science in the Making archives portal. Digital audiences can now travel through time to read about Herschel’s work in his own words and those of his correspondents. They […]
June 5, 2024 by Gary Price
From a Project ReShare Announcement: Project ReShare is pleased to announce the launch of the ReShare Digital software development initiative and its accompanying pledge drive. This endeavor is aimed at revolutionizing the way libraries share and access digital collections, with an initial emphasis on eBook lending and book chapter delivery functionalities. ReShare Digital, an extension of the […]