The University of Maryland Libraries seeks an Open Data and Repository Services Librarian to join the Open Scholarship Services (OSS) team, inaugurated in September 2022. The Open Data and Repository Services Librarian will work within the OSS team and across the Libraries and wider campus community to provide leadership on the changing landscape of open […]
Nowadays, Artificial Intelligence is revealing itself as an essential tool for many tasks pertaining to any kind of field. When it comes to historical studies, AI might be trained for the purpose of automatic recognition of texts. Pursuing such a goal, Isabelle Marthot-Santaniello applied Deep Learning-based methodologies to papyri. In the D-scribes project she worked […]
The scientific aim of the Islam West Africa Collection (IWAC) was primarily to compile a corpus of press articles, an under-used type of sources, for two research projects: 1-Youth and Women’s Islamic Activism in Côte d’Ivoire and Burkina Faso; 2- Muslim Minorities in Benin and Togo.This open-access database provides access to press clippings from the […]
Sentiment analysis, particularly with the advent of large language models, is reshaping our understanding of narrative. Emotional arcs in both fictional and non-fictional narratives surface latent structures that challenge traditional notions of plot and character. One reason is that feature extraction correlates with passages often selected for close reading, suggesting the role of emotion in […]
All four cases circle a central question around who controls digital content. We are no longer in an era where content is just content that humans read, and so in an age where AI and large-scale reuse are possible, who controls digital content is a question that needs to be answered. OCLC’s fight over library […]
The Sindhi Halchal Archive is dedicated to the advertisements published in Sindhi books and magazines in India by writers and small scale publishers producing books after 1947. In the absence of state support or major infrastructure to reach wider audiences all over the country – Sindhis are scattered in different cities in India – it […]
As part of Open Data Day 2025, Solvent hosted a workshop, “Open Data for Peace and Development,” in Mukono, Kampala District, Uganda. It brought together tenants, civil society, district representatives, community leaders and open data experts to explore how open data can resolve land disputes and promote peace in Uganda. Participants learned about open land […]
This is the third part of an initial 5,000 word draft of a specially commissioned piece on the commons and Creative Commons. It’s for an open-access online glossary on the contemporary condition and near future that’s being produced by the Chinese Academy of Art. Creative Commons has been widely praised for fostering a culture of […]
I edited a special issue of the Journal of Electronic Publishing on Publishing and Climate Justice, which also includes an article I wrote: “Strategies for Climate Justice in the Academic Publishing Industry: From Pledges to Direct Action”. This important collection captures urgent and critical research that starts to outline the challenges the climate emergency poses […]
StoryData is a data communication project based in Barcelona. It combines research, analysis, visualisation and storytelling to reveal the stories behind the data. Its mission is to address the current communication gap by rigorously practising data journalism and advocating for the openness of data to citizens, with the aim of democratising public information and combatting […]
