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“In the eighth annual The State of Open Data report released today, almost three quarters of surveyed researchers overwhelmingly said they are still not getting the support they need to share their data openly. Such data highlights the increased need for greater community collaboration and tools to support researchers in the move to sustainable open …
Webinar on the Nuts and Bolts of the Foreign Relations of the United States series. Please register today to join us on November 15 at 2 pm Eastern. The next Help! I’m an Accidental Government Information Librarian webinar will be held on November 15 at 2 pm Eastern. Elizabeth C. Charles, historian in the Office …
LorcanDempsey.net: “Libraries are engaging with AI in their educational, service and policy work. This post discusses seven contexts in which that work is taking place. This is the third of four posts on Generative AI: Generative AI and large language models: background and contexts Generative AI, scholarly and cultural language models, and the return of …
Gizmodo: “We live in a multilingual world, which is represented in the billions of pages published on the web—but just because a website isn’t written in your native tongue doesn’t mean that you can’t read it. All of the most popular browsers come with translation tools built-in on desktop and mobile, so you don’t have …
Amos Azaria, Rina Azoulay, Shulamit Reches; ChatGPT is a Remarkable Tool—For Experts. Data Intelligence 2023; doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/dint_a_00235 “This paper investigates the capabilities of ChatGPT as an automated assistant in diverse domains, including scientific writing, mathematics, education, programming, and healthcare. We explore the potential of ChatGPT to enhance productivity, streamline problem-solving processes, and improve writing style. …
“The rule of law has once again eroded in a majority of countries this year, according to the World Justice Project (WJP) Rule of Law Index 2023. More than 6 billion people live in a country where the rule of law weakened between 2022 and 2023. Since authoritarian trends pushed the world into a rule …
Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, November 11, 2023 Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the …
ParrotNet “is a European network of scientists, practitioners and policy-makers dedicated to research on invasive parrots, their impacts and the challenges they present. Our network is working to better understand why parakeets are highly successful invaders, how we can predict their agricultural, economic, societal and ecological impacts across Europe, and the means to mitigate them, …
Krebs on Security – “In the summer of 2022, KrebsOnSecurity documented the plight of several readers who had their accounts at big-three consumer credit reporting bureau Experian hijacked after identity thieves simply re-registered the accounts using a different email address. Sixteen months later, Experian clearly has not addressed this gaping lack of security. I know …
Infofilia: Celebrating Linda C. Smith, the Renaissance Scholar of Library and information Science – “Today, we meet another living polymath, the library, and information sciences, interdisciplinary scholar Linda C. Smith, Professor Emerita, School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. In the 1970s, Linda was already investigating the potential of artificial intelligence for libraries and …
Washington Post [read free]: “She loved books. And in a time of spreading book bans in public schools, that’s why this Florida librarian had to quit. It was her last Monday morning in the library, and when Tania Galiñanes walked into her office and saw another box, she told herself that this would be the …
Paying for News: What Google and Meta Owe US Publishers — Draft Working Paper, Working Paper #1 Patrick Holder, Haaris Mateen, Anya Schiffrin, Haris Tabakovic Overview – Paper “This paper estimates the payment that Facebook and Google Search platforms would owe to news publishers for the use of news content, if the Journalism Competition & …
