July 24, 2024 by Gary Price
AI Embrace AI in Libraries: Freeing Staff for Meaningful Work While Preserving Human Touch (via IFLA) Microsoft’s AI Assistants Will Revolutionize the Office — One Day These Are the 10 AI Startups to Watch in 2024 (via Bloomberg) Google Google Adds AI-powered Comparisons, Collections and More Data Controls to Play Store (via TC) Google is […]
June 1, 2024 by Gary Price
From a NORC Announcement: A first-of-its-kind data tracker from NORC at the University of Chicago’s Center on Public Safety and Justice offers in-depth information on crime, violence, and victimization in cities across the United States. The Live Crime Tracker provides the public—along with policymakers, researchers, and others—with transparent, timely, and available data that can help cities respond rapidly […]
April 30, 2024 by Gary Price
From The Wilton Library: Today, one of the world’s premier jazz archives, The Brubeck Collection at Wilton Library (Wilton, CT), announced the launch of its enhanced and interactive digital archive, making the 22,000+ item collection catalog easily searchable and browsable online for the first time to everyone worldwide. This new digital archive also includes more […]
April 26, 2024 by Gary Price
Copim: A community working to build a fairer, more open future for scholarly books has just announced the launch of three experimental book publishing pilot projects. 1) Launch of Experimental Book Publishing Pilot Project ‘Servpub – A Collective Infrastructure to Serve and Publish’ The Open Book Futures (OBF) Experimental Publishing Group is pleased to announce […]
April 16, 2024 by Gary Price
From the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH): The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) today announced $26.2 million in grants for 238 humanities projects across the country. Grants awarded today will underwrite a new permanent exhibition at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh on how the Nile River shaped ancient Egyptians’ ideas of […]
April 13, 2024 by Gary Price
From a National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) Post: A new state-of-the-art digitization center at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) in College Park, Maryland, is allowing the agency to provide greater public access to the country’s most important historical federal government records faster than ever before. Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen, Representative Steny […]
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March 31, 2024 by Gary Price
From Planetizen: Washington, D.C. recently launched a generative AI tool trained on 2,000 open data sets, reports Jonathan Andrews for Cities Today. The beta version of DC Compass, a chatbot similar to ChatGPT, is now accessible to city staff and residents to ask data-oriented civic questions and generate maps at a keystroke. The city worked with Esri, […]
January 30, 2024 by Gary Price
From the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland UMD-LinkUp, a collaboration between the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland, LinkUp Job Market Data, and Outrigger Group, introduced the world’s first tool for mapping the creation of jobs requiring artificial intelligence skills: UMD-LinkUp AI Maps. AI Maps leverages LinkUp’s […]
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January 23, 2024 by Gary Price
From a FEMA Announcement: The Climate Risk and Resilience Portal (ClimRR) is an award-winning, free, national online source for sophisticated climate data down to the neighborhood level. ClimRR provides easy access to climate data to integrate future conditions into Hazard Mitigation Plans, land use plans, infrastructure design, and FEMA’s Resilience Analysis and Planning Tool (RAPT). ClimRR data is available […]
January 23, 2024 by Gary Price
Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) BHL Technical Development: Year in Review Boston Library Consortium, NISO Boston Library Consortium (BLC) and NISO (National Information Standards Organization) Announce Membership Agreement EBSCO EBSCO Information Services CEO Tim Collins to Retire on June 30, 2024 DataCite Meet Maria Gould, DataCite’s New Product Director Google Chrome Browser Adds Three New Generative […]