The Asheville Art Museum has contributed over 1,500 images of American art from the 20th and 21st centuries to Artstor on JSTOR. The collection has significant holdings of Black Mountain College artists, including alums such as Ruth Asawa and Robert Rauschenberg. Also featured are works by Mark Peiser, the first resident glass artist at Penland […]
The 2026 State of Open Infrastructure report is out. This is the third annual analysis of where and how funding flows (or doesn’t) to the infrastructure that underpins research and scholarly communication. Some of the disruptions over the last two years have been very loud, with budget cuts and policy shifts across the globe. Herein, […]
Our take: In “Look Mom, Libraries are in the New York Times!,” Rosalyn Metz responds to reports that an OpenAI agent tried to break into a University of New Mexico library site. She argues that libraries have faced this pressure for years. Drawing on firewall logs from one of Emory’s library applications, she shows 2.17 […]
Our take: In this post for the Open Knowledge Foundation, Kannika Thaimai shares the recording and materials from the closing event of Traceable AI Answers for Public Data, a project of the AI Learning Labs initiative. Working with government agencies in Brazil and Uruguay, the team built a prototype that connects AI to open data […]
Our take: The October DLF Digest from the Digital Library Federation shares news, working group meetings and CLIR program updates. It highlights the 2026 Virtual DLF Forum, which takes place online on October 14 and 15. Registration information is available at https://forum2026.diglib.org/registration/. The keynote will be streamed live and remain available afterward on the DLF […]
Aaron Straup Cope recently attended this year’s Fantastic Futures conference, in Washington DC, and spoke about SFO Museum’s efforts to encourage and promote the practice of publicly shared vector embeddings, by and for the cultural heritage sector. See full post.
Mark Bernstein is a visionary in hypertext and electronic publishing. He founded Eastgate Systems, the first publisher of electronic literature, in 1982, to advance nonlinear, intertwingled storytelling and thought through creating tools, publishing non-linear works, authoring peer-reviewed scholarly articles, fostering discourse, and much more. In this interview, Mark Bernstein reflects on hypertext, electronic literature, Storyspace, […]
This report is a call to action. Through five intense months of meetings, research, and outreach across the MIT community, the Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in Teaching, Learning, and Research Training sought to understand the role of generative AI in the life and educational mission of the Institute and recommend how to navigate […]
The Palestinian Oral History Archive (POHA) is a searchable digital platform hosting approximately 1,000 hours of testimonials from the first generation of Palestinian refugees who fled Palestine during Nakba (“the catastrophe”). The primary focus of the archive is centred on the personal narratives surrounding the Nakba, and life accounts in the pre-1948 Palestinian era. The […]
From 21–25 July 2026, Wikimedians from around the world gathered in Paris for Wikimania 2026, the annual conference celebrating the people, projects and communities behind the Wikimedia movement. This year, we supported our largest-ever contingent of staff, trustees and volunteers to attend. For some, it was their first experience while for others, it was an […]
