Mireille (elle/she/her)
@mireillenappert.bsky.social
Using social media for all things Digital Preservation since 2021.
Testing the Bluesky waters. Still.
More often scrolling in Mastodon than here. 🤷♀️
Testing the Bluesky waters. Still.
More often scrolling in Mastodon than here. 🤷♀️
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Oh hi there!
Soooooo, ya trying to connect to people or ya just wanna boost your numbers with Starter Packs?
If it’s the latter, know that I don’t automatically follow back. Ain’t a numbers game for me.
Soooooo, ya trying to connect to people or ya just wanna boost your numbers with Starter Packs?
If it’s the latter, know that I don’t automatically follow back. Ain’t a numbers game for me.
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Ensuring the Sovereignty and Security of Canadian Health Data - my @cmaj.ca commentary with Kumanan Wilson and Mari Teitelbaum on the value of health data, the role of AI, and the overdue need for stronger privacy safeguards in Canada.
www.cmaj.ca/content/197/...
www.cmaj.ca/content/197/...
Ensuring the sovereignty and security of Canadian health data
Key points
Health data are critical to health systems in Canada, but the potential of these data to be accessed and used by foreign entities for surveillance purposes without consent is concerning. Fu...
www.cmaj.ca
July 30, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Ensuring the Sovereignty and Security of Canadian Health Data - my @cmaj.ca commentary with Kumanan Wilson and Mari Teitelbaum on the value of health data, the role of AI, and the overdue need for stronger privacy safeguards in Canada.
www.cmaj.ca/content/197/...
www.cmaj.ca/content/197/...
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CLIR is now accepting applications for Digitizing Hidden Collections: Amplifying Unheard Voices! Grants from $50K to $300K support the digitization of rare materials that center on underrepresented communities. Initial apps due Oct. 20.
🌐 www.clir.org/2025/08/auv4...
🌐 www.clir.org/2025/08/auv4...
CLIR Now Accepting Applications for Digitizing Hidden Collections: Amplifying Unheard Voices Grant Program
CLIR Now Accepting Applications for Digitizing Hidden Collections: Amplifying Unheard Voices Grant Program August 5, 2025, Alexandria, VA: The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) is no...
www.clir.org
August 7, 2025 at 1:24 AM
CLIR is now accepting applications for Digitizing Hidden Collections: Amplifying Unheard Voices! Grants from $50K to $300K support the digitization of rare materials that center on underrepresented communities. Initial apps due Oct. 20.
🌐 www.clir.org/2025/08/auv4...
🌐 www.clir.org/2025/08/auv4...
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More than 130,000 Claude, Grok, ChatGPT, and Other LLM Chats Readable on Archive.org
🔗 www.404media.co/more-than-13...
🔗 www.404media.co/more-than-13...
More than 130,000 Claude, Grok, ChatGPT, and Other LLM Chats Readable on Archive.org
The issue of publicly saving shared LLM chats is bigger than just Google.
www.404media.co
August 7, 2025 at 4:21 PM
More than 130,000 Claude, Grok, ChatGPT, and Other LLM Chats Readable on Archive.org
🔗 www.404media.co/more-than-13...
🔗 www.404media.co/more-than-13...
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UMaine has published a profile of my lab's efforts to harness new media for environmental causes, from my colleague Joline Blais's efforts to keep Maine's lakes healthy to the What Uses More tool for comparing AI's eco footprint to other activities. umaine.edu/news/blog/20...
UMaine unveils app to gauge AI's environmental cost - UMaine News - University of Maine
A new app, "What Uses More," aims to reveal the environmental footprint of tasks completed with artificial intelligence, encouraging users to examine critically the energy and water consumption of the...
umaine.edu
August 7, 2025 at 3:36 PM
UMaine has published a profile of my lab's efforts to harness new media for environmental causes, from my colleague Joline Blais's efforts to keep Maine's lakes healthy to the What Uses More tool for comparing AI's eco footprint to other activities. umaine.edu/news/blog/20...
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McMaster U Faculty Assoc has voted to uphold academic freedom and freedom of expression by committing to remaining neutral with respect to views of its members. Model for others. Motion:
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Analysis:
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Analysis:
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July 10, 2025 at 5:15 PM
McMaster U Faculty Assoc has voted to uphold academic freedom and freedom of expression by committing to remaining neutral with respect to views of its members. Model for others. Motion:
static1.squarespace.com/static/65496...
Analysis:
static1.squarespace.com/static/65496...
x.com/neca_rpce/st...
static1.squarespace.com/static/65496...
Analysis:
static1.squarespace.com/static/65496...
x.com/neca_rpce/st...
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Mānawatia a Matariki!
The iPRES 2025 Local Organising Committee is proud to celebrate Matariki, the Māori New Year. The return of Matariki (the Pleiades star cluster) in the winter sky marks the Māori New Year - a time for remembrance, celebrating the present, and looking to the future.
The iPRES 2025 Local Organising Committee is proud to celebrate Matariki, the Māori New Year. The return of Matariki (the Pleiades star cluster) in the winter sky marks the Māori New Year - a time for remembrance, celebrating the present, and looking to the future.
June 19, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Mānawatia a Matariki!
The iPRES 2025 Local Organising Committee is proud to celebrate Matariki, the Māori New Year. The return of Matariki (the Pleiades star cluster) in the winter sky marks the Māori New Year - a time for remembrance, celebrating the present, and looking to the future.
The iPRES 2025 Local Organising Committee is proud to celebrate Matariki, the Māori New Year. The return of Matariki (the Pleiades star cluster) in the winter sky marks the Māori New Year - a time for remembrance, celebrating the present, and looking to the future.
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#DPCAccess event kicking off with interesting presentation by @roxponinja.bsky.social on developing workflows to catalogue and make born digital content available. Automating processes, and integrating systems.
June 19, 2025 at 1:29 PM
#DPCAccess event kicking off with interesting presentation by @roxponinja.bsky.social on developing workflows to catalogue and make born digital content available. Automating processes, and integrating systems.
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We’re kicking off CC signals! These preference signals will be designed to offer a new way for stewards of large collections of content to indicate their preferences as to how machines (and the humans controlling them) should contribute back to the commons.
Register here: buff.ly/2v9fNVY
Register here: buff.ly/2v9fNVY
June 13, 2025 at 5:57 PM
We’re kicking off CC signals! These preference signals will be designed to offer a new way for stewards of large collections of content to indicate their preferences as to how machines (and the humans controlling them) should contribute back to the commons.
Register here: buff.ly/2v9fNVY
Register here: buff.ly/2v9fNVY
Info dates from Spring 2024, so I’d be curious to hear about the projet’s evolution.
During the pandemic, MS was very generous with licensing & data storage in Higher Ed. Terms are not so generous anymore.
Fun times to manage that.
During the pandemic, MS was very generous with licensing & data storage in Higher Ed. Terms are not so generous anymore.
Fun times to manage that.
June 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Info dates from Spring 2024, so I’d be curious to hear about the projet’s evolution.
During the pandemic, MS was very generous with licensing & data storage in Higher Ed. Terms are not so generous anymore.
Fun times to manage that.
During the pandemic, MS was very generous with licensing & data storage in Higher Ed. Terms are not so generous anymore.
Fun times to manage that.
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Interested in linguistics, theoretical linguistics, psychology, sociology or education?
CLOCKSS is delighted to make the Journal of Home Language Research available in perpetuity as part of our mission to preserve the scholarly record. clockss.org/clockss-trig... #OA
CLOCKSS is delighted to make the Journal of Home Language Research available in perpetuity as part of our mission to preserve the scholarly record. clockss.org/clockss-trig... #OA
CLOCKSS triggers the Journal of Home Language Research - CLOCKSS
The Journal of Home Language Research (JHLR) was an international double-blind peer-reviewed open access journal that published original research from any part of the world in all areas related to…
clockss.org
June 11, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Interested in linguistics, theoretical linguistics, psychology, sociology or education?
CLOCKSS is delighted to make the Journal of Home Language Research available in perpetuity as part of our mission to preserve the scholarly record. clockss.org/clockss-trig... #OA
CLOCKSS is delighted to make the Journal of Home Language Research available in perpetuity as part of our mission to preserve the scholarly record. clockss.org/clockss-trig... #OA
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📢 DPC Career Development Fund announcement!
Supporting #dpc members to attend #ipres2025 in Te Whanganui-a-Tara (Wellington), Aotearoa through our latest grant opportunity!
🎯 Full registration coverage
🌏 In-person & virtual options
⏰ Apply by July 1st, 2025
🔐 Available to DPC Members only […]
Supporting #dpc members to attend #ipres2025 in Te Whanganui-a-Tara (Wellington), Aotearoa through our latest grant opportunity!
🎯 Full registration coverage
🌏 In-person & virtual options
⏰ Apply by July 1st, 2025
🔐 Available to DPC Members only […]
Original post on digipres.club
digipres.club
June 11, 2025 at 6:17 AM
📢 DPC Career Development Fund announcement!
Supporting #dpc members to attend #ipres2025 in Te Whanganui-a-Tara (Wellington), Aotearoa through our latest grant opportunity!
🎯 Full registration coverage
🌏 In-person & virtual options
⏰ Apply by July 1st, 2025
🔐 Available to DPC Members only […]
Supporting #dpc members to attend #ipres2025 in Te Whanganui-a-Tara (Wellington), Aotearoa through our latest grant opportunity!
🎯 Full registration coverage
🌏 In-person & virtual options
⏰ Apply by July 1st, 2025
🔐 Available to DPC Members only […]
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Free! Climate change, archives, and digital preservation workshop, June 25-26, 12:00-2:00 pm EST/EDT.
Register and more info here: www.dpoe.network/upcoming-wor...
#digipres #archives #library 📚
Register and more info here: www.dpoe.network/upcoming-wor...
#digipres #archives #library 📚
June 4, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Free! Climate change, archives, and digital preservation workshop, June 25-26, 12:00-2:00 pm EST/EDT.
Register and more info here: www.dpoe.network/upcoming-wor...
#digipres #archives #library 📚
Register and more info here: www.dpoe.network/upcoming-wor...
#digipres #archives #library 📚
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Preserving Knowledge in a Shifting World: The Role of Libraries in Geopolitical Uncertainty - if you are feeling overwhelmed, please join us for a free webinar! library.cern/events/libra...
Library Science Talk - Preserving Knowledge in a Shifting World: The Role of Libraries in Geopolitical Uncertainty | CERN Scientific Information Service (SIS)
This Talk will take place in English exclusively on Zoom. Registration is not required to attend. Abstract:
library.cern
June 3, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Preserving Knowledge in a Shifting World: The Role of Libraries in Geopolitical Uncertainty - if you are feeling overwhelmed, please join us for a free webinar! library.cern/events/libra...
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Work in #digitalpreservation? I'd like you to complete a short survey created just for you! 😍 It's all about identification, selection + appraisal practices and will help @eosc-eden.bsky.social project massively. Please have your say - we need YOUR expertise: ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run... #digipres
EOSC-EDEN survey on identification, appraisal and selection of digital data for long-term digital preservation.
ec.europa.eu
May 16, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Work in #digitalpreservation? I'd like you to complete a short survey created just for you! 😍 It's all about identification, selection + appraisal practices and will help @eosc-eden.bsky.social project massively. Please have your say - we need YOUR expertise: ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run... #digipres
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Join the 2025 Maine AI 'unconference' on June 13 in Orono for face-to-face discussions whose topics will be democratically chosen by the attenders. (We've got expert panels too.) Register by this Friday—more at www.linkedin.com/posts/jonipp... #MaineAIconf
#maineaiconf | Jon Ippolito
Beyond a series of talking heads, the 2025 Maine AI Conference on 13 June offers an “unconference” whose topics will be determined democratically by those in attendance.
I’ve helped organize these bo...
www.linkedin.com
June 3, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Join the 2025 Maine AI 'unconference' on June 13 in Orono for face-to-face discussions whose topics will be democratically chosen by the attenders. (We've got expert panels too.) Register by this Friday—more at www.linkedin.com/posts/jonipp... #MaineAIconf
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We are pleased to announce that the crawl archive for May 2025 is now available. The data was crawled between May 11th and May 25th, and contains 2.47 billion web pages, or 429 TiB of uncompressed content.
commoncrawl.org/blog/may-202...
commoncrawl.org/blog/may-202...
Common Crawl - Blog - May 2025 Crawl Archive Now Available
We are pleased to announce that the crawl archive for May 2025 is now available. The data was crawled between May 11th and May 25th, and contains 2.47 billion web pages, or 429 TiB of uncompressed con...
commoncrawl.org
June 3, 2025 at 1:21 PM
We are pleased to announce that the crawl archive for May 2025 is now available. The data was crawled between May 11th and May 25th, and contains 2.47 billion web pages, or 429 TiB of uncompressed content.
commoncrawl.org/blog/may-202...
commoncrawl.org/blog/may-202...
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living in the cyberpunk future sucks
(AI-bots seeking material to train the pirate slop machine DDOS'd the Hagley Library's digital archive to death)
(AI-bots seeking material to train the pirate slop machine DDOS'd the Hagley Library's digital archive to death)
May 28, 2025 at 8:46 PM
living in the cyberpunk future sucks
(AI-bots seeking material to train the pirate slop machine DDOS'd the Hagley Library's digital archive to death)
(AI-bots seeking material to train the pirate slop machine DDOS'd the Hagley Library's digital archive to death)
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How should libraries respond to the deluge of AI-generated book submissions? My Tuesday talk for the MLA considered:
- An outright ban
- Restriction to a specific "AI shelf"
- A required % of human authorship
- Restriction to certain genres (fiction yes/medical advice no)
- Community vetting
- An outright ban
- Restriction to a specific "AI shelf"
- A required % of human authorship
- Restriction to certain genres (fiction yes/medical advice no)
- Community vetting
May 22, 2025 at 11:44 AM
How should libraries respond to the deluge of AI-generated book submissions? My Tuesday talk for the MLA considered:
- An outright ban
- Restriction to a specific "AI shelf"
- A required % of human authorship
- Restriction to certain genres (fiction yes/medical advice no)
- Community vetting
- An outright ban
- Restriction to a specific "AI shelf"
- A required % of human authorship
- Restriction to certain genres (fiction yes/medical advice no)
- Community vetting
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I appeared on CBC’s National last night on Quebec’s version of Bill C-11. The bill guarantees content removal: either streaming services will remove their content altogether from Quebec by blocking the service or they remove much English content to meet quota requirements
www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
Quebec wants to set French quotas for streamers like Netflix and Spotify
Quebec Culture Minister Mathieu Lacombe introduced a new bill Wednesday that would force streaming platforms like Netflix and Spotify to hit a quota of French-language content, and make it easier for ...
www.cbc.ca
May 22, 2025 at 1:25 PM
I appeared on CBC’s National last night on Quebec’s version of Bill C-11. The bill guarantees content removal: either streaming services will remove their content altogether from Quebec by blocking the service or they remove much English content to meet quota requirements
www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
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May 21, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Believe me, I would love to help. But alas
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May 20, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Believe me, I would love to help. But alas
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💾 From file to integrity! Every CLOCKSS ingestion or trigger is a story of tech, metadata, and teamwork. Big thanks to our preservation team who make it all work behind the scenes!
#PreservationHeroes #CLOCKSS #ThymeTheBear
#PreservationHeroes #CLOCKSS #ThymeTheBear
May 21, 2025 at 9:17 AM
💾 From file to integrity! Every CLOCKSS ingestion or trigger is a story of tech, metadata, and teamwork. Big thanks to our preservation team who make it all work behind the scenes!
#PreservationHeroes #CLOCKSS #ThymeTheBear
#PreservationHeroes #CLOCKSS #ThymeTheBear
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Hey #museums folk and others: take my job! I'm off to other adventures and the best Museum in Australia needs new visionary leadership: www.derwentsearch.com.au/job-details/...
Director, Museum Experience & Engagement job in Public Sector and Government in Sydney
Find your next Director, Museum Experience & Engagement job in Public Sector and Government located in Sydney New South Wales. Apply Now for this great Di
www.derwentsearch.com.au
May 21, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Hey #museums folk and others: take my job! I'm off to other adventures and the best Museum in Australia needs new visionary leadership: www.derwentsearch.com.au/job-details/...