Carol Chiodo, Ph.D.
@digitaldante.bsky.social
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I'm just thrilled that people are having an animated discussion over translation!
Asymmetry in access to data plagues knowledge production. Amelia Acker's unpacks how (& why) in _Archiving Machines_. Not since @nannathylstrup.bsky.social _The Politics of Digitization_ have I read a book so brilliantly argued & researched mitpress.mit.edu/978026255324... And of course it's #OA
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"Her recent book is 'The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State,' and her New Yorker article is 'Is AI Above the Law?' (to which she says 'yes,' and it's Congress' job to rein it in)." www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2...
Is AI above the law? Historian Jill Lepore says it is
Artificial intelligence agents, or bots as they're often called, have gone rogue lately, escaping the virtual boundaries that were supposed to prevent them from accessing data, finding one another whe...
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‘“Hard borders” are a creation of the modern age. Until the late 19th century, borders almost everywhere were more or less open, often fuzzy or undecided.’ Ferdinand Mount on immigration and emigration in the English imagination. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Ferdinand Mount · Modest and Misunderstood: Wretched Strangers
In the great immigration panics of today, sympathy is focused on the home team. We are the ones who are being hurt. It...
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There is a lot of food for thought here: understanding tech development in the context of public infrastructure, current asymmetry between public and private, a reluctance to engage around differentiated licensing for reuse and resharing. Themes overwhelmingly absent from convos in the U.S.
Carol Chiodo, Ph.D.@digitaldante.bsky.social · 2w agoIf data is a strategic resource in this environment, how might the cultural heritage sector mobilize it for reciprocal and collective benefit?
If data is a strategic resource in this environment, how might the cultural heritage sector mobilize it for reciprocal and collective benefit?
Carol Chiodo, Ph.D.@digitaldante.bsky.social · 2w agoHow do we craft an AI ecosystem that benefits, rather than actively damages, the resources, communities, and infrastructure associated with cultural heritage?
How do we craft an AI ecosystem that benefits, rather than actively damages, the resources, communities, and infrastructure associated with cultural heritage?
Carol Chiodo, Ph.D.@digitaldante.bsky.social · 2w agoSitting in on the Europeana Foundation's panel on how cultural heritage can make Public AI a reality: pro.europeana.eu/files/data_s... U.S. research libraries should take note.
Sitting in on the Europeana Foundation's panel on how cultural heritage can make Public AI a reality: pro.europeana.eu/files/data_s... U.S. research libraries should take note.
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Highly recommend this piece from @mollyhardy.bsky.social which she presented at #FF26: lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2026/09... 📚🖥️💡
Public Data, AI, and the Future of the Catalog | Library Innovation Lab
The Library Innovation Lab is growing knowledge and community by bringing library principles to technological frontiers.
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Italian illustrator Annalisa Bollini creates her mixed media scenes with a combination of embroidery, appliqué and paper #womensart
It ys tyme for Tulip skeptics to face some difficulte trouthes. Tulips are the waye of the future. Yf you do not invest yn Tulips you are way behinde. Yf you do not teache your children about Tulips thei will not be able to compete on the jobbe market. Onlye Luddites dislyke Tulips.
You know what never hacked another company or had a 10% chance to kill humanity? A goddamn book.
One of my favorite slides from #ff2026
Neil Fitzgerald@nfitzger.glammr.us.ap.brid.gy · 3w agoUp after #ff2026 coffee: shared infrastructures: https://www.conftool.org/fantastic-futures-2026/index.php?page=browseSessions&ismobile=true&form_date=2026-09-17&form_session=80&mode=list #AI4LAM #glam #iiif #ai #ml
Tackling tough questions here at #ff2026
Neil Fitzgerald@nfitzger.glammr.us.ap.brid.gy · 3w agoNow the closing #ff2026 keynote from Rosalyn Metz: https://www.conftool.org/fantastic-futures-2026/index.php?page=browseSessions&ismobile=true&form_date=2026-09-17&form_session=21&mode=list #AI4LAM #glam #ai #ml
I find the internat'l perspectives at #FF2026 both bracing and refreshing. I know the US is not an easy place to visit right now for our non-US colleagues, but I am so grateful that you came!
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Panel discussion on "AI and Government Data", left 2 right: @brettbobley.bsky.social , Daniel Evans, @mollyhardy.bsky.social & @bcgl.bsky.social #FF2026
Let’s hear it for the memory workers 👏👏👏#FF26
Martin R. Kalfatovic@udcmrk.bsky.social · 3w ago@bcgl.bsky.social presents "GovScape (govscape.net), a multi-institutional collaboration to create a public search system for 10+ million government PDFs. Efforts over the past three decades have produced web archives containing billions of webpage snapshots and petabytes of data." #FF2026
Hey #ff2026 I got bumped with our massive IT failure! Come back to Madison Dining Rm A - Small (and zoom) at 4:15pm Eastern to find out what @amsichani.bsky.social and I have to say about Data Driven AI Without Data
Exciting day ahead!
Martin R. Kalfatovic@udcmrk.bsky.social · 4w agoOpening remarks for AI4LAM's #fantasticfutures2026 at the @librarycongress.bsky.social 1) Ines Vodopivec (Secretary General/AI4LAM) 2) Robert Newlen (Library of Congress) 3) Judith Conklin (Library of Congress) 4) Abigail Potter (Library of Congress)
Presentation materials from #DH2026 are now available on Zenodo. Participation was voluntary, so the collection covers only those presenters who chose to deposit their slides or posters — but if there was a session you missed or want to revisit, it's a good place to start. zenodo.org/communities/...
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Interested in how maps might speak to our present moment? Here is one extraordinary example: americanatlas.world
The Atlas of America — Making Names Great Again.
The official atlas of the U.S. Board on American Names. Every place name on Earth, reviewed and brought into compliance. Current as of this morning.
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Richard Jean So@richardjeanso.bsky.social · 2mo agoReally worthwhile CFP f/ Computational Humanities Research on "Peripheries," inviting work that uses data-driven approaches to recovering marginalized, lost voices in the cultural record/archive & what's been lost through processes of mass corpus digitization: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...