Editors’ Summary: In this post, the author considers the growing problem of ‘zombie citations’, or citations that may have been “hallucinated” or constructed by generative AI. He uses an example of a reference to an article that he never wrote, and traces the citations of it through Google Scholar. Williamson demonstrates how the non-existent paper […]
Jeremy Silver had been enjoying his retirement when he was asked to take the helm of the beleaguered British Library three months ago. Silver, a tech entrepreneur and investor, had been a trustee of the library since 2019. He had a front-row seat for its crippling by the hacking group Rhysida in October 2023, which […]
The next Electronic Literature Organization conference, ELO 2026, will be held online. This year’s event will continue ELO’s tradition of bringing together scholars, artists, and practitioners of electronic literature from around the world. For preliminary details and updates, visit the conference site: https://anastasiasalter.net/ELO2026/. The theme of ELOnline 2026 is (Un)Supervised. One interpretation of this might […]
Announcing a new season of our fun online intensives Learn how to approach data-visualisation and infographic creation from an editorial ‘conceptual’ point of view, rather than a data POV. May be useful if you are:› Translating written reports, research & messaging into visual graphics› Wanting to understand data journalism and story-telling with data› A words […]
This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow Project Manager and Samya Brata Roy, DHNow Guest Editor. In our first Editors’ Choice, the author encourages debates over large language models (LLMs) to move past the question of their ability “to think.” The second selection considers the experience of incarcerated students in order to develop […]
The conference will take place as a hybrid event. Presentations and participation are possible both on site and virtually. Call for Papers: https://jcls.io/site/cfp/ Call for Posters: https://jcls.io/site/ccls2026/poster-call/ Dates: May 28-29, 2026 Venue: Potsdam See full post.
Editors’ Summary: In this post, Salvaggio considers how a lot of current scholarship on LLMs is fixated on proving that they are conducting something “akin to thought.” He discusses a recent paper that tested the ability of LLMs to make sense of ‘Jabberwocky’ language in which most or all content words have been randomly replaced […]
In December, hundreds of library, museum, archive and research staff gathered in the British Library’s Knowledge Centre to share the state of the art in AI research for cultural heritage. The 250 international participants onsite at the British Library Knowledge Centre, 3-5 December 2025 included dozens of presenters who delivered 16 workshops, 19 posters and […]
The University of Florence has unveiled Impronte Digitali (“Digital Imprints”), a new digital library designed to preserve and make accessible rare historical materials held in its libraries. The platform, developed by the University Library System, offers online access to more than 200,000 images representing around 4,000 digital objects. These are organized into 15 documentary collections, […]
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