Joshua Ortiz Baco

@jgob.bsky.social

Digital Scholarship Librarian and Recovering Spanish and Portuguese PhD Relearning how to live and work inside and out of academia. Constantly away from home 🏴󠁵󠁳󠁰󠁲󠁿 🇵🇷 🏴󠁵󠁳󠁰󠁲󠁿 Editor for @proghist.bsky.social #DH #MultilingualDH #Libraries #Caribbean #LatinAmerica

A lot has been happening in the digital humanities and the university. My colleagues @kallewesterling.bsky.social, Jeanelle Horcasitas, and I are interested in having a broader discussion and debate on DH outside of the ivory tower CFP is open through March 15 dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/page/cfp-dh-...

CFP: Navigating Digital Humanities Careers Beyond the Ivory Tower | Debates in the Digital Humanities

Transforming scholarly publications into living digital works

dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu

I am beyond thrilled to share that DATA BY DESIGN: AN INTERACTIVE HISTORY OF DATA VISUALIZATION, 1789-1900 is now open for community review at 💚 📊 dataxdesign.io 📊 💙. It's the work of 15+ people across 5 institutions, 2 continents, 2 babies, and a global pandemic. A 🧵 but first:

A screenshot of the front page of the Data by Design website, featuring a bunch of charts in a jumble and one, of a mountain and measurements by Francisco José de Caldas, featured at the top right.

Dr. Hayden has been such a transformative and inspiring Librarian for the past decade. If you haven't had the privilege to spend time with LC staff, you may not realize what a sea change she brought to our national library. One of the all-time greats. A huge loss for millions and millions.

The Associated Press@apnews.com · last yr.

BREAKING: President Donald Trump abruptly fires Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden. The dismissal was disclosed in statements from three top House Democrats and confirmed by a separate person familiar with the matter.

New year, same (or new!) reading habits: 💓Supporting indie bookshops & libraries 📚Getting so absorbed in a book, we lose all sense of time/place 🔎Discovering new authors ✅Making sure we’re reading a diverse range of authors/stories ❓Asking a bookseller for their recs

A thing I wrote is now out in the world: doi.org/10.1093/jahi... It is a short review essay of how historians and archivists have been using the web since the '90s (US perspective), to collect personal histories & eye witness accounts following current events & reflecting on the past

“Share Your Story”: Legacies of Online Collecting

In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, we as historians knew that we had witnessed a major set of events and that we would not be able to fully ass

doi.org

Need an out of office reply that respectfully informs everyone that, “I already interacted with too many people at work for this week and will not be responding to your email until I reset next week. I like all of you, I just don’t have any thoughts left.”

My daily reminder of how AI, or really ML, still sucks at basic things: the automatic spam detection in gmail and outlook both cost me a sub-$200 Mac Pro I bid on even though the seller’s email is in my “safe senders” 🙄😤

Given all the “data driven cost efficient” language in higher ed lately, I was wondering how big a bureaucracy would be needed to enforce 🎶everything old is new again 🎹censoring and intimidation tactics. This gives a pretty accurate figure: a lot.

Mike MacFerrin@icesheetmike.bsky.social · 3y ago

Would also be a shame if online scripts existed with instructions to let you repeatedly spam each web-form quickly. Would really be a shame. github.com/uhohspaghett...

🏴󠁵󠁳󠁰󠁲󠁿 🇵🇷 09/23/23 is the 155th Anniversary of the Declaration of the Puerto Rican Republic and Independence: “The Revolution to establish the independence of the homeland has never failed…the time it takes to claim its sovereignty from foreign interventions does not matter.” Albizu Campos

1930 Proclamation on the anniversary of the Lares Revolution by Albizu Campos.

The irony of getting to the end of the work week, realizing I have to work over the weekend, and having this as the last task on my list: “Reach out to people that can help me work smarter, not harder”