Nora McGregor
@noramcgregorbl.bsky.social
Digital Curator, Digital Research Team at the British Library specifically and information enthusiast generally.
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Love that the wonderful keynote at #liber2025 by Frederic Kaplan started with briefly unpacking how LLMs practically work! If you'd like a really quick intro to some of the key concepts/terms relating to AI & ML in Libraries we've got a topic guide for that libereurope.github.io/ds-topic-gui...
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AI Use at Large Companies Is in Decline, Census Bureau Says
AI Use at Large Companies Is in Decline, Census Bureau Says
A dip in corporate AI adoption isn't a great sign for an industry hellbent on world domination.
gizmodo.com
September 9, 2025 at 1:24 PM
AI Use at Large Companies Is in Decline, Census Bureau Says
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Launching Digital Scholarship and Data Science Topic Guides for Library Professionals (DS Topic Guides) libereurope.github.io/ds-topic-gui... - at #LIBER2025
A 2023-2027 LIBER Working Group collaboration between Digital Scholarship and Digital Cultural Heritage and Data Science in Libraries
A 2023-2027 LIBER Working Group collaboration between Digital Scholarship and Digital Cultural Heritage and Data Science in Libraries
Welcome – Digital Scholarship & Data Science Topic Guides
libereurope.github.io
July 3, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Launching Digital Scholarship and Data Science Topic Guides for Library Professionals (DS Topic Guides) libereurope.github.io/ds-topic-gui... - at #LIBER2025
A 2023-2027 LIBER Working Group collaboration between Digital Scholarship and Digital Cultural Heritage and Data Science in Libraries
A 2023-2027 LIBER Working Group collaboration between Digital Scholarship and Digital Cultural Heritage and Data Science in Libraries
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In an unconscionable decision, the Smithsonian Institute has decided to no longer support the Biodiversity Heritage Library from 1 Jan 2026. Please someone step up and take it over.
Foundations: please step up and take over the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL). This is an absolutely essential scanned archive of all of the old journals and books from the 1500s to about 1920. Has been indispensable for my research.
about.biodiversitylibrary.org/call-for-sup...
about.biodiversitylibrary.org/call-for-sup...
Call for Support: – About BHL
about.biodiversitylibrary.org
July 2, 2025 at 3:56 PM
In an unconscionable decision, the Smithsonian Institute has decided to no longer support the Biodiversity Heritage Library from 1 Jan 2026. Please someone step up and take it over.
Hearing from Marie Buesink @kb.nl about the excellent pilot "Retro Tool" developed w/for cataloguers for automatic metadata generation! www.kb.nl/en/over-ons/...! Combines OCR + LLM to identify identical catalogue records and create new ones w/Human in the Loop. #Liber2025 @libereurope.bsky.social
July 2, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Hearing from Marie Buesink @kb.nl about the excellent pilot "Retro Tool" developed w/for cataloguers for automatic metadata generation! www.kb.nl/en/over-ons/...! Combines OCR + LLM to identify identical catalogue records and create new ones w/Human in the Loop. #Liber2025 @libereurope.bsky.social
Love that the wonderful keynote at #liber2025 by Frederic Kaplan started with briefly unpacking how LLMs practically work! If you'd like a really quick intro to some of the key concepts/terms relating to AI & ML in Libraries we've got a topic guide for that libereurope.github.io/ds-topic-gui...
July 2, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Love that the wonderful keynote at #liber2025 by Frederic Kaplan started with briefly unpacking how LLMs practically work! If you'd like a really quick intro to some of the key concepts/terms relating to AI & ML in Libraries we've got a topic guide for that libereurope.github.io/ds-topic-gui...
Off to #LIBER2025 to launch Digital Scholarship & Data Science Topic Guides for Library Professionals! libereurope.github.io/ds-topic-gui... A labour of love, 18 guides created by bsky.app/profile/libe... peeps, to help library professionals quickly get their bearings on lots of digital topics!
Welcome – Digital Scholarship & Data Science Topic Guides
libereurope.github.io
July 1, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Off to #LIBER2025 to launch Digital Scholarship & Data Science Topic Guides for Library Professionals! libereurope.github.io/ds-topic-gui... A labour of love, 18 guides created by bsky.app/profile/libe... peeps, to help library professionals quickly get their bearings on lots of digital topics!
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There is so much good work coming out of @libraryfutures.bsky.social right now, but this Zine we sponsored featuring writing from incarcerated librarians is really special and beautiful. I learned so much from these knowledge workers’ writing. www.libraryfutures.net/publications...
Controlled Chaos
Research and advocacy for the future of libraries.
www.libraryfutures.net
June 25, 2025 at 5:16 PM
There is so much good work coming out of @libraryfutures.bsky.social right now, but this Zine we sponsored featuring writing from incarcerated librarians is really special and beautiful. I learned so much from these knowledge workers’ writing. www.libraryfutures.net/publications...
Really thoughtful essay by my hubby on agentic AI + hiring + bias. 💡https://www.tenfive.ai/it-doesnt-take-a-genius-to-plan-a-party/
It doesn’t take a genius to plan a party – TenFive AI
www.tenfive.ai
June 25, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Really thoughtful essay by my hubby on agentic AI + hiring + bias. 💡https://www.tenfive.ai/it-doesnt-take-a-genius-to-plan-a-party/
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loooool
I do enjoy the country-specific name changes for No Kings protests this weekend
June 13, 2025 at 4:27 PM
loooool
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This has been the consensus of every leading AI researcher I know who is serious about the science and the evidence, as opposed to a) trying to push a product or a brand and/or b) viewing the creation of AGI as an article of religious faith and devotion.
Vast majority of AI experts believe that key assumption of Biden & Trump Admins on AI- that we are about to develop soon AGI/humanlike AI- is very unlikely to happen soon & lack needed tech. A major US foreign policy is based, as usual, on inaccurate premises.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/t...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/t...
May 21, 2025 at 12:49 PM
This has been the consensus of every leading AI researcher I know who is serious about the science and the evidence, as opposed to a) trying to push a product or a brand and/or b) viewing the creation of AGI as an article of religious faith and devotion.
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How Cory Arcangel Recovered a Late Artist’s Digital Legacy. “This was his computer exactly as he had left it, down to his customized Photoshop shortcuts and the positions of the windows.” I love Cory, this is awesome. [newyorker.com]
How Cory Arcangel Recovered a Late Artist’s Digital Legacy
Michel Majerus died in a plane crash, but the contents of his laptop are providing a window into his process two decades later. Arcangel says, “It’s like he just stepped out of the room.”
www.newyorker.com
May 8, 2025 at 4:22 PM
How Cory Arcangel Recovered a Late Artist’s Digital Legacy. “This was his computer exactly as he had left it, down to his customized Photoshop shortcuts and the positions of the windows.” I love Cory, this is awesome. [newyorker.com]
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I lol-ed
April 3, 2025 at 8:22 PM
I lol-ed
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based on how often the naughty teens of major cities throw the rentable scooters directly into the river i've formed a theory that the many iron age swords and cauldrons found in lakes around europe that we've previously assumed were ceremonial and sacrificial in nature were in fact thrown by teens
August 17, 2024 at 4:38 PM
based on how often the naughty teens of major cities throw the rentable scooters directly into the river i've formed a theory that the many iron age swords and cauldrons found in lakes around europe that we've previously assumed were ceremonial and sacrificial in nature were in fact thrown by teens
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This is really cool. Reddit users coming through again. “A team of volunteer archivists has recreated the Centers for Disease Control website exactly as it was the day Donald Trump was inaugurated. The site, called RestoredCDC.org”
Archivists Recreate Pre-Trump CDC Website, Are Hosting It in Europe
The team used a Reddit-made archive of the CDC website to create a new live mirror of the site before it was purged.
www.404media.co
March 8, 2025 at 6:37 PM
This is really cool. Reddit users coming through again. “A team of volunteer archivists has recreated the Centers for Disease Control website exactly as it was the day Donald Trump was inaugurated. The site, called RestoredCDC.org”
My husband & biz partner have been working on a new thing and it's awesome 🥰 Have a play and help them test out the concept! Send feedback to @detournement-ai.bsky.social!
We've been exploring what author-AI collaboration could look like, working with Edgar Allan Poe's story The Cask of Amontillado as a case study:
www.loomers.world/cask/
Is this a worthwhile way of interacting with a text? Is it something that writers and readers alike could get behind?
www.loomers.world/cask/
Is this a worthwhile way of interacting with a text? Is it something that writers and readers alike could get behind?
Loomers
Experiments in fiction
www.loomers.world
February 20, 2025 at 4:15 PM
My husband & biz partner have been working on a new thing and it's awesome 🥰 Have a play and help them test out the concept! Send feedback to @detournement-ai.bsky.social!
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Screaming "THIS IS SO COOOOOOOOL" like Conner O'Malley
techcrunch.com/2025/02/05/r...
techcrunch.com/2025/02/05/r...
February 6, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Screaming "THIS IS SO COOOOOOOOL" like Conner O'Malley
techcrunch.com/2025/02/05/r...
techcrunch.com/2025/02/05/r...
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Academics: please become an active Wikipedia editor and add to public knowledge in your area of research, and please also remember to cite women, people of colour, LGBTQ+, etc. slate.com/technology/2...
A Powerful Conservative Think Tank Is Targeting One of the Last Good Things on the Internet
The Heritage Foundation plans to “identify and target” Wikipedia editors it accuses of antisemitism.
slate.com
February 6, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Academics: please become an active Wikipedia editor and add to public knowledge in your area of research, and please also remember to cite women, people of colour, LGBTQ+, etc. slate.com/technology/2...
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'Wikidata has become the largest collection of open cultural heritage data the world has ever seen'
A decade of collaboration between Wikimedia UK and the National Library of Wales: Building a sustainable future for Welsh culture online - WMUK
By Jason Evans, Open Data Manager at the National Library of Wales 10 years ago I turned up for my … Continue reading "A decade of collaboration between Wikimedia UK and the National Library of…
wikimedia.org.uk
February 6, 2025 at 10:40 AM
'Wikidata has become the largest collection of open cultural heritage data the world has ever seen'
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simply repeating the straight reporting of what is happening in the executive branch makes you sound like you have lost your mind.
February 3, 2025 at 2:36 PM
simply repeating the straight reporting of what is happening in the executive branch makes you sound like you have lost your mind.
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Breaking: Punxsutawney Phil sees the shadow of death and fall of an empire, so there will be 6 more weeks of winter and then groundhogs inherit the earth.
February 2, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Breaking: Punxsutawney Phil sees the shadow of death and fall of an empire, so there will be 6 more weeks of winter and then groundhogs inherit the earth.
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The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...
End of Term Web Archive – Preserving the Transition of a Nation | Internet Archive Blogs
blog.archive.org
February 1, 2025 at 12:58 AM
The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...
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Here's a checklist for backing up federal databases. Please share. Thanks.
libraries.mit.edu/data-managem...
libraries.mit.edu/data-managem...
Checklist for USA federal data backups | Data management
Introduction The United States (US) federal government collects, aggregates, and disseminates a large volume of information and data. This content is used by researchers, policymakers, and many others...
libraries.mit.edu
January 31, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Here's a checklist for backing up federal databases. Please share. Thanks.
libraries.mit.edu/data-managem...
libraries.mit.edu/data-managem...
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Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet:
www.404media.co/declassified...
www.404media.co/declassified...
Declassified CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism Is Suddenly Viral
The World War II-era "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" is full of steps that office workers can take to resist leadership.
www.404media.co
January 29, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet:
www.404media.co/declassified...
www.404media.co/declassified...
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'Staff at English Heritage have been shocked to discover that the cash-strapped organisation is planning up to 200 redundancies and the winter closure of various...historic sites in its care.
At least 7% of the workforce could be affected, with curators being particularly targeted, it is believed.'
At least 7% of the workforce could be affected, with curators being particularly targeted, it is believed.'
English Heritage plans up to 200 redundancies and winter closures of some sites
Exclusive: At least 7% of workforce could be affected with curators targeted as part of charity’s restructuring
www.theguardian.com
January 30, 2025 at 8:10 AM
'Staff at English Heritage have been shocked to discover that the cash-strapped organisation is planning up to 200 redundancies and the winter closure of various...historic sites in its care.
At least 7% of the workforce could be affected, with curators being particularly targeted, it is believed.'
At least 7% of the workforce could be affected, with curators being particularly targeted, it is believed.'