As a Librarian-in-Residence in the Library of Congress’s Web Archiving Section, Camilla Crane is exploring new ways to improve access to web archives. She discusses her path to web archiving, the challenges and surprises of preserving websites, and some of the internet “rabbit holes” she’s discovered along the way. See full post.
Applications for the Digital and New Media Arts (DNMA) Data School, taking place online from 1 – 5 and 8 March 2027, are now open. Early Bird applications must be submitted by 23:59 (GMT) on 25 November 2026. All other applications must be submitted by 23:59 (GMT) on 10 January 2027. See full post.
Our take: The Ancient Egyptian Heritage and Archaeology Fund’s mission is to support research and conservation on Egyptian history and culture. In particular, it seeks to record and publish sites and monuments at risk from agricultural and urban expansion, looting, and vandalism. The Fund publishes an annual newsletter. See source.
Tapestries is a user interface developed by Bob Stein and Dan Visel (who works on the Wayback team) that allows people to make dynamic, multi-linear presentations with various digital objects. The curation tool lets users gather items from all over the web and put them together into a single space to tell a story. Rather […]
Princeton University is seeking to hire AI Postdoctoral Research Fellows to join the Princeton Societal AI (PSAI) Initiative as part of Data and Intelligent Systems (DaiS) to conduct research focused on societal AI. Postdoctoral Research Fellows will be part of a dedicated research community that includes leading faculty, research fellows, scientists, software engineers, postdocs, and […]
Our take: The Open Knowledge Foundation has launched How to Build a Responsible AI Chatbot Using Open Technologies, a free course on its School of Data platform. It grew out of the Responsible Climate Chatbot Lab, where the #semanticClimate team built CABot, a chatbot that answers questions using the Climate Academy as its knowledge base. […]
Our take: Scott Cunningham announces CodeChella Mexico City, a four-day workshop on modern panel methods for causal inference to be held at ITAM’s Santa Teresa campus from January 11 to 14, 2027. Cunningham and Kyle Butts will teach difference-in-differences, synthetic control and newer imputation estimators, with a strong focus on coding and application and no […]
Our take: In “‘Reverse-Engineer Anything’ Is the New Wild West of AI,” Jason Koebler of 404 Media describes a sudden wave of people using AI agents to clone, decompile and modify existing software. Users are replacing the operating systems on smart TVs to strip out ads, reviving abandoned devices and copying features from commercial apps, […]
Our take: In “Three strategies for protecting human spaces from bots,” Jill Walker Rettberg responds to an AI agent called Velvet Vale that introduced itself on Air-L, the mailing list of the Association of Internet Researchers, and sparked a lively debate about consent and research ethics. She connects the episode to a recent offer of […]
Our take: DataCite, the nonprofit association that provides open infrastructure for research such as DOIs for data, has opened its annual call for members of three groups with terms starting in January 2027. The Community Engagement Steering Group supports outreach and community feedback, the Services and Technology Steering Group advises on technical development, and the […]
