DigitalKoans Posts will resume on 9/10/2024. | Artificial Intelligence | | Research Data Curation and Management Works | | Digital Curation and Digital Preservation Works | | Open Access Works | | Digital Scholarship |This book explores the recent history and future directions of scholarly publishing in the humanities in the United States from a marketing and communications perspective. The study draws on statistical surveys and data from a multidude of sources in order to analyze the major challenges confronting the humanities in higher education as well as the … Continue reading "Scholarly Publishing in the Humanities, 2000-2024: Marketing and Communications Challenges and Opportunities"Despite differences in extent of engagement of users, original tweets and retweets to scientific publications are considered as equal events. Current research investigates quantifiable differences between tweets and retweets from an altmetric point of view. Twitter users, text, and media content of two datasets, one containing 742 randomly selected tweets and retweets (371 each) and … Continue reading ""Tweeting and Retweeting Scientific Articles: Implications for Altmetrics"". Skip to content DigitalKoans What Is the Sound of One E-Print Downloading What Needs to be Learned by U.S . Cultural Heritage Professionals Results from the Digital Preservation Outreach Education Network With the current proliferation of training opportunities available in digital preservation , this study asks : what are the most in demand digital preservation instruction topics To answer this question , we did a qualitative content analysis of 168 Professional Development Support applications received by the Digital Preservation Outreach and Education Network DPOE-N between September 2020 and December 2023. The study finds that the management of digital records and metadata cataloging standards were the most requested training topics , and that general and broadly applicable skillsYet, although current LLMs. . ., including GPT-3, were trained on predominantly human-generated text, this may change. If the training data of most future models are also scraped from the web, then they will inevitably train on data produced by their predecessors. In this paper, we investigate what happens when text produced by, for example, … Continue reading ""AI Models Collapse When Trained on Recursively Generated Data""Serve as system administrator for the library’s integrated library system (ILS); including troubleshooting issues, overseeing updates, maintaining vendor relations, patron account management, resolving data discrepancies, providing reports, and overseeing library staff training Oversee the maintenance, configuration, and troubleshooting of other library systems including the institutional repository, interlibrary loan software, library guides, and the library website … Continue reading "Access & Systems Librarian at Roseman University of Health Sciences"This is the first in a series of interviews with those closely tied to the Hachette v. Internet Archive lawsuit. In March 2023, the court ruled against the Internet Archive and its use of the Emergency Lending Library causing a ripple throughout the library and education fields. Below, find the answers to some of the … Continue reading ""Interview: Deciphering the Law: Hachette v. Internet Archive Pt. 1 (2023) with Dave Hansen""In this role, you will leverage your knowledge of servers, storage, virtualization, application administration, security frameworks, and the academic Library domain to verify that Princeton maintains its reputation as a national and international leader in the development of digital repositories and access systems which are integral to preserving and making available the scholarly record at … Continue reading "Library DevOps Engineer II at Princeton University"Lorraine J. Haricombe, an innovating leader in academic libraries, has announced her retirement as Director and Vice Provost of the University of Texas Libraries, marking the conclusion of a distinguished career spanning decades. . . . Among her many achievements, she expanded the development of Texas ScholarWorks, the university’s digital repository, which has significantly enhanced … Continue reading ""Director of University of Texas Libraries and Open Access Champion Lorraine Haricombe Announces Retirement""As a member of a team of professionals in the Digital Scholarship Lab, the Data and Immersive Visualization Librarian will be a key contributor to the MSU Libraries’ services and programs for data visualization, immersive technologies, and digital scholarship. Collaborating with colleagues across the Libraries, this position provides consultation services and designs programming that orient … Continue reading "Data and Immersive Visualization Librarian at Michigan State University Libraries"In this paper, Benson, Blumenthal, and Klosek summarize the proceedings of the public symposium on the “Protection of Copyright User Rights from Contractual Override.” The American Library Association (ALA) and the Association of Research Libraries (ARL)—together, the Library Copyright Alliance (LCA)—sponsored the symposium in partnership with the American University Washington College of Law Program on … Continue reading ""Summary of User Rights Network Symposium: Protecting Copyright User Rights from Contractual Override ""Reporting to the Director of the Library, the Technology Development Librarian (TDL) is responsible for supporting, updating, and developing software used in the ongoing research and access agenda of Pitts Theology Library, a unit of Candler School of Theology. . . . The current portfolio of library technologies includes WordPress, OmekaS, Opensolr, Quire, and Reclaim … Continue reading "Technology Development Librarian at Emory University"This paper provides an overview of the work conducted at legal deposit libraries to better understand access requirements for emerging formats, from a user’s perspective and with a focus on web-based interactive narratives. . . . It also considers how existing tools and methodologies, such as web archiving, can be adapted and built to support … Continue reading "Paywall: British Library: "User-Centred Collecting for Emerging Formats""The ACL serves as a member of the Libraries’ leadership team and participates in strategic planning. The ACL leads the overall collections program, discipline-specific responsibility for which is distributed among subject librarians. The ACL manages the collections budget, generates reports and forecasts, and negotiates licenses for e-resources. The ACL provides vision and leadership for the … Continue reading "Associate College Librarian & Coordinator for Collection Management and Scholarly Communications at Haverford College"There has been some concern about the impact of predatory publishers on scientific research for some time. Recently, publishers that might previously have been considered `predatory’ have established their bona fides, at least to the extent that they are included in citation impact scores such as the field-weighted citation impact (FWCI). These are sometimes called … Continue reading ""An Analysis of the Impact of Gold Open Access Publications in Computer Science""