New issue of the #Code4Lib Journal published: https://journal.code4lib.org/issues/issues/issue60.
Includes a contribution on #OpenWEMI vocabulary from Karen Coyle.
OpenWEMI: A Minimally Constrained Vocabulary for Work, Expression, Manifestation, and Item https://journal.code4lib.org/articles/18412 #DCMI #RDF #FRBR #LRM #WEMI
PSA for #code4lib: it's time for basic server maintenance, so you may notice a few interruptions.
@hvdsomp Some are installing (Cloudflare) Turnstile(s) to redirect bots to. There was a presentation at #code4lib a few weeks ago about it, after this blog post: https://bibwild.wordpress.com/2025/01/16/using-cloudflare-turnstile-to-protect-certain-pages-on-a-rails-app/ .
Darf ich vorstellen: https://codeberg.org/weirdfox/mfs
Ein Tool, mit dem man Metadaten herunterladen kann. Gerade nur Publikationen über DOI von Crossref / DataCite / OpenAlex, wird aber in alle möglichen Richtungen erweitert. Nutze es um Rust zu lernen, ist aber ernst gemeint :)
Momentan eine sehr Alpha-Version verfügbar, von jeglicher produktiven Nutzung ist stark abzuraten.
Ich freue mich über Tipps, Ideen, Kritik!
Über neue Releases wird hier ebenfalls berichtet.
Loved the "Scaffolding Possibility: Systems, Stress, and Small Acts of Care" post by @platypus
"we are the people building small parts of the environment in which those around us live every day. If we’re not building systems, can we build scaffolds to get people to the things they need to live and thrive? Whether it’s just in a place designers didn’t expect them to go or somewhere they were actively shut out of?"
The first alpha version of Skosmos 3 has been published! This release provides a peek into the upcoming next major version of the Skosmos publishing tool for SKOS controlled vocabularies.
The release features a reimplemented front-end with a fresh layout and improved accessibility, as well as many architectural improvements and modernization of the codebase.
https://github.com/NatLibFi/Skosmos/releases/tag/v3.0-alpha.1
It, uh, probably isn't ethical to host #Code4Lib in the US next year.
US academics also aren't going to have much in the way of travel funds, either.
Can we talk about an online-only conference now?
#Code4Lib is a very special place where breakouts can be:
- ArchivesSpace Discussion w/Program Team Devs (Friend Center 108)
- How to Index Subject Headings (Friend Center 109)
- How to Defend Yourself Against a Dagger-Armed Brigand in Quattrocento Italy (Reprise) (Courtyard)
- Digitization Workflows (Friend Center 110)
- Local and Open Source Discovery Systems (Friend Center 111)
etc. #c4l25 (once you see it)
Text of my #Code4Lib #c4l25 talk is up: https://ruthtillman.com/talk/c4l-scaffolding-possibility/
I am here at #Code4Lib! I have hugged friends! I have eaten food! I have applied my backup text method because there’s no presenter view.
first time heading to #code4lib since before many life changes and situations and already thinking about the myriad of uncomfortable conversations i get the unique opportunity to have
Going to a conference this week? Why not back up your phone tonight! #code4lib in particular but also just a good idea for life.
The sensitivity index: Corrupting Y2K
by @beet_keeper
In December I asked “What will you bitflip today?” Not long after, Johan’s (@bitsgalore) Digtial Dark Age Crew released its long lost hidden single Y2K — well, I couldn’t resist corrupting it.
Fixity is an interesting property enabled by digital technologies. Checksums allow us to demonstrate mathematically that a file has not been changed. An often cited definition of fixity is:
Fixity, in the preservation sense, means the assurance that a digital file has remained unchanged, i.e. fixed — Bailey (2014)
It’s very much linked to the concept of integrity. A UNESCO definition of which:
The state of being whole, uncorrupted and free of unauthorized and undocumented changes.
Integrity is massively important at this time in history. It gives us the guarantees we need that digital objects we work with aren’t harboring their own sinister secrets in the form of malware and other potentially damaging payloads.
These values are contingent on bit-level preservation, the field of digital preservation largely assumes this; that we will be able to look after our content without losing information. As feasible as this may be these days, what happens if we lose some information? Where does authenticity come into play?
Through corrupting Y2K, I took time to reflect on integrity versus authenticity, as well as create some interesting glitched outputs. I also uncovered what may be the first audio that reveals what the Millennium Bug itself may have sounded like! Keen to hear it? Read on to find out more.
Version 1.3 of the automated subject subject indexing tool #Annif has been released!
This release introduces support for the EstNLTK analyzer for better Estonian lemmatization 
, optimizations to the MLLM backend, as well as maintenance and bug fixes, including better file permissions in multi-user environments.
Finally got around to watching this https://social.coop/@copystar/112765348884048405 Can definitely relate based on previous places of work, and so glad to hear #code4lib is talking about it
My librarian/developer friends! We have officially launched/stabilized our journal, Studies in Russian Literature, Philosophy, and Religious Thought. Built entirely from markdown using a pandoc docx -> markdown -> html/latex CI/CD process.
Please (kindly) eviscerate my code!
I've been fooling around with a #Python script for converting #MARC bibliographic records to #Markdown for use with a static website generator. Probably only has an audience of one (me), but it's not complicated and it solves an interesting problem for private #librarians: how can we get our collections out there when LibraryThing isn't enough but a full OPAC is too much?
Reminder to #code4lib people: Keynote voting ends *tomorrow*! https://forms.gle/sZu15v2VbzV7sokv7 At the moment the vote is extremely close, so your vote could make the difference.
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