Bonnie Wildie
@bonniewildie.bsky.social
Libraries, archives, history.
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Flock accidentally exposed training materials and a panel which tracked what its AI annotators were working on. It showed that Flock, which has cameras in thousands of U.S. communities, is using workers in the Philippines to review and classify footage.
Flock Uses Overseas Gig Workers to Build its Surveillance AI
Flock accidentally exposed training materials and a panel which tracked what its AI annotators were working on. It showed that Flock, which has cameras in thousands of U.S. communities, is using workers...
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December 1, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Flock accidentally exposed training materials and a panel which tracked what its AI annotators were working on. It showed that Flock, which has cameras in thousands of U.S. communities, is using workers in the Philippines to review and classify footage.
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Can AI be ethical and transparent? At READ-COOP, the unique European cooperative behind Transkribus, we prioritise democratic control and purpose over profit.
Read Melissa Terras' (@melissaterras.bsky.social) thoughts on why this model is a global blueprint:
blog.transkribus.org/en/melissa-t...
Read Melissa Terras' (@melissaterras.bsky.social) thoughts on why this model is a global blueprint:
blog.transkribus.org/en/melissa-t...
Melissa Terras on why cooperatives are the future of AI
Discover why Melissa Terras believes cooperatives like READ-COOP represent the future of AI, fostering community-driven, sustainable technological innovation.
blog.transkribus.org
November 27, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Can AI be ethical and transparent? At READ-COOP, the unique European cooperative behind Transkribus, we prioritise democratic control and purpose over profit.
Read Melissa Terras' (@melissaterras.bsky.social) thoughts on why this model is a global blueprint:
blog.transkribus.org/en/melissa-t...
Read Melissa Terras' (@melissaterras.bsky.social) thoughts on why this model is a global blueprint:
blog.transkribus.org/en/melissa-t...
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I recorded a video for my #slvresidency on hacking the SLV website. It talks about looking beneath the hood of #glam websites to try and imagine alternatives & fix problems. https://lab.slv.vic.gov.au/resources/hack-website-video-tim-sherratt #libraries #digitalhumanities
How to 'hack' a library website – a video tutorial by Tim Sherratt | SLV LAB
Learn how to hack a web browser to view and access online collections in different ways
lab.slv.vic.gov.au
November 25, 2025 at 3:14 AM
I recorded a video for my #slvresidency on hacking the SLV website. It talks about looking beneath the hood of #glam websites to try and imagine alternatives & fix problems. https://lab.slv.vic.gov.au/resources/hack-website-video-tim-sherratt #libraries #digitalhumanities
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If you want to know more about how we built the cooperative that supports @transkribus.bsky.social, and how coops are a way to actually operationalise responsible AI, then please read our paper, which was the basis of my talk. This is about community open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/articles/5-16
open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu
November 13, 2025 at 11:51 AM
If you want to know more about how we built the cooperative that supports @transkribus.bsky.social, and how coops are a way to actually operationalise responsible AI, then please read our paper, which was the basis of my talk. This is about community open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/articles/5-16
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Would I could find a fine frog!
October 10, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Would I could find a fine frog!
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Woohoo! Great #digipres story @makethecatwise
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20251009-rescuing-knowledge-trapped-on-old-floppy-disks
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20251009-rescuing-knowledge-trapped-on-old-floppy-disks
A digital dark age? The people rescuing forgotten knowledge trapped on old floppy disks
From lectures by Stephen Hawking to the letters of British politician Neil Kinnock – it's a race against time to save the historical treasures locked away on old floppy disks.
www.bbc.com
October 10, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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Australian orchids suffer rapid pollination decline since the 1970s, study suggests
www.abc.net.au/news/science...
www.abc.net.au/news/science...
One hundred years of Australian flower data reveals pollination drop
Researchers behind a new study examining thousands of flower specimens collected over the past century say temperature increases could be behind a pollination decline in native orchids.
www.abc.net.au
October 7, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Australian orchids suffer rapid pollination decline since the 1970s, study suggests
www.abc.net.au/news/science...
www.abc.net.au/news/science...
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We have improved our links with the Allmaps project, so that any of our maps can be freely, collaboratively georeferenced and then brought back into our Georeferenced Maps viewer 🗺️
Learn more > maps.nls.uk/view/help/
#Georeference #MapMonday #Maps
Learn more > maps.nls.uk/view/help/
#Georeference #MapMonday #Maps
October 6, 2025 at 8:01 AM
We have improved our links with the Allmaps project, so that any of our maps can be freely, collaboratively georeferenced and then brought back into our Georeferenced Maps viewer 🗺️
Learn more > maps.nls.uk/view/help/
#Georeference #MapMonday #Maps
Learn more > maps.nls.uk/view/help/
#Georeference #MapMonday #Maps
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Hey! My post about my #slvresidency made it into the Editor's Choice section of the latest @DHNow: https://digitalhumanitiesnow.org
Digital Humanities Now – Community-Curated Content from the Field
digitalhumanitiesnow.org
October 2, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Hey! My post about my #slvresidency made it into the Editor's Choice section of the latest @DHNow: https://digitalhumanitiesnow.org
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📢 This looks like a great opener for the upcoming @ihr.bsky.social Digital History Seminar - "Digitising Death: Gender, Genealogy, and the Experimental Recovery of Women’s Histories in Early Modern Ireland"
👉 21 Oct, 5.30 pm, online, FREE
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
👉 21 Oct, 5.30 pm, online, FREE
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
September 23, 2025 at 10:00 AM
📢 This looks like a great opener for the upcoming @ihr.bsky.social Digital History Seminar - "Digitising Death: Gender, Genealogy, and the Experimental Recovery of Women’s Histories in Early Modern Ireland"
👉 21 Oct, 5.30 pm, online, FREE
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
👉 21 Oct, 5.30 pm, online, FREE
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Library of Congress has a really good planning framework: libraryofcongress.github.io/labs-ai-fram...
LC Labs AI Planning Framework - LC Labs AI Planning Framework
LC Labs has been developing a planning framework to support the responsible exploration and potential adoption of AI at the Library of Congress.
libraryofcongress.github.io
May 6, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Library of Congress has a really good planning framework: libraryofcongress.github.io/labs-ai-fram...
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Everything Open 2026 is Coming to Canberra!
The three day conference will have presentations on a range of open technologies topics from community members and project leaders.
Call for Sessions is now open 🧑🏫. If you have something to speak about submit your proposals today!
The three day conference will have presentations on a range of open technologies topics from community members and project leaders.
Call for Sessions is now open 🧑🏫. If you have something to speak about submit your proposals today!
Everything Open 2026 | Announcing Everything Open 2026
2026.everythingopen.au
August 12, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Everything Open 2026 is Coming to Canberra!
The three day conference will have presentations on a range of open technologies topics from community members and project leaders.
Call for Sessions is now open 🧑🏫. If you have something to speak about submit your proposals today!
The three day conference will have presentations on a range of open technologies topics from community members and project leaders.
Call for Sessions is now open 🧑🏫. If you have something to speak about submit your proposals today!
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New research could block AI learning from your online content www.csiro.au/en/news/All/...
New research could block AI learning from your online content
The method protects images from being used to train AI or create deepfakes by adding invisible changes that confuse the technology.
www.csiro.au
August 12, 2025 at 7:08 AM
New research could block AI learning from your online content www.csiro.au/en/news/All/...
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The dictionary is a living, breathing and evolving record of how language is wrapped up in who we are as Australians. It is vital we protect it.
👉 Read the full story: theconversation.com/the-anu...
👉 Read the full story: theconversation.com/the-anu...
August 9, 2025 at 4:49 AM
The dictionary is a living, breathing and evolving record of how language is wrapped up in who we are as Australians. It is vital we protect it.
👉 Read the full story: theconversation.com/the-anu...
👉 Read the full story: theconversation.com/the-anu...
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"The archival field has been navigating the shift from bespoke, individualized practices to scalable, systemic solutions informed by field-wide, best practices/standards, all while contending w/ the on-the-ground realities of fragmented workflows+limited resources"
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about.jstor.org/wp-content/u...
about.jstor.org
August 4, 2025 at 6:27 PM
"The archival field has been navigating the shift from bespoke, individualized practices to scalable, systemic solutions informed by field-wide, best practices/standards, all while contending w/ the on-the-ground realities of fragmented workflows+limited resources"
about.jstor.org/wp-content/u...
about.jstor.org/wp-content/u...
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Take me down to the octopus city
Where the socialisation is
Unexplained but pretty
Where the socialisation is
Unexplained but pretty
i just found out there are two OCTOPUS CITIES, BUILT BY OCTOPI off the coast of australia and i’m gonna need a few days to fully process this information
www.bbcearth.com/news/underwa...
www.bbcearth.com/news/underwa...
‘Underwater city’ reveals mysterious octopus world | BBC Earth
Over the last decade, scientists have discovered that octopuses aren’t always lone beasts. In fact, octopuses engage in rich, fascinating and unusual behaviours when they interact with each other.
www.bbcearth.com
July 31, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Take me down to the octopus city
Where the socialisation is
Unexplained but pretty
Where the socialisation is
Unexplained but pretty
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The @transkribus.bsky.social "Egerton: English Secretary Hand" model is now public! app.transkribus.org/models/publi.... We have a website with sample transcriptions for different hands, information about our training conventions, and more: sites.northwestern.edu/egerton/
July 30, 2025 at 4:23 PM
The @transkribus.bsky.social "Egerton: English Secretary Hand" model is now public! app.transkribus.org/models/publi.... We have a website with sample transcriptions for different hands, information about our training conventions, and more: sites.northwestern.edu/egerton/
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[Blogged] The AI powered Library Search That Refused to Search - From Clarivate's Summon to Primo Research Assistant, content‑moderation layers meant mostly for chatbots are "quietly" blocking controversial topics from being searched
aarontay.substack.com/p/the-ai-pow...
aarontay.substack.com/p/the-ai-pow...
The AI powered Library Search That Refused to Search
From Clarivate's Summon to Primo Research Assistant, content‑moderation layers meant mostly for chatbots are "quietly" blocking controversial topics from being searched
aarontay.substack.com
July 29, 2025 at 6:19 PM
[Blogged] The AI powered Library Search That Refused to Search - From Clarivate's Summon to Primo Research Assistant, content‑moderation layers meant mostly for chatbots are "quietly" blocking controversial topics from being searched
aarontay.substack.com/p/the-ai-pow...
aarontay.substack.com/p/the-ai-pow...
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OCLC explains the lay offs, "Artificial Intelligence and other technology changes require different skills and provide opportunity for efficiencies..." 📚
www-nbc4i-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.nbc4...
www-nbc4i-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.nbc4...
Dublin-based nonprofit lays off 80 central Ohio workers, cites AI and federal cuts
DUBLIN, Ohio (WCMH) — A Dublin-based organization that manages the Dewey Decimal System and partners with libraries worldwide has laid off dozens of central Ohio employees, citing the rise of…
www-nbc4i-com.cdn.ampproject.org
July 30, 2025 at 3:31 PM
OCLC explains the lay offs, "Artificial Intelligence and other technology changes require different skills and provide opportunity for efficiencies..." 📚
www-nbc4i-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.nbc4...
www-nbc4i-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.nbc4...
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This is such cultural and intellectual vandalism. The Australian National Dictionary Centre is straightforwardly the sort of thing a national university worthy of the designation would support and sustain
From bluey to bogans: Researchers who help define how the nation speaks to lose their jobs
For almost 40 years, the words the nation uses in speech, newspapers and books has been mapped by a small team at the Australian National Dictionary Centre.
www.smh.com.au
July 14, 2025 at 5:54 AM
This is such cultural and intellectual vandalism. The Australian National Dictionary Centre is straightforwardly the sort of thing a national university worthy of the designation would support and sustain
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Mitchell Starc takes the fastest five-wicket haul ever, Scott Boland becomes the best bowler since WWI, and the West Indies flirt with the lowest score of all time. These are the records to tumble on a remarkable day of Test cricket in Jamaica.
The records that tumbled on a remarkable day of Test cricket in Jamaica
Mitchell Starc takes the fastest five-wicket haul ever, Scott Boland becomes the best bowler since WWI, and the West Indies flirt with the lowest score of all time. These are the records to tumble on a remarkable day of Test cricket in Jamaica.
www.abc.net.au
July 15, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Mitchell Starc takes the fastest five-wicket haul ever, Scott Boland becomes the best bowler since WWI, and the West Indies flirt with the lowest score of all time. These are the records to tumble on a remarkable day of Test cricket in Jamaica.
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I can't believe ANU is proposing to disestablish ANDC @ozworders.bsky.social. Over the last 20 years of writing I've often consulted staff over the origins of obscure words and phrases. We need the dictionary to record and explain our changing language. www.smh.com.au/national/fro...
From bluey to bogans: Researchers who help define how the nation speaks to lose their jobs
For almost 40 years, the words the nation uses in speech, newspapers and books has been mapped by a small team at the Australian National Dictionary Centre.
www.smh.com.au
July 12, 2025 at 1:55 AM
I can't believe ANU is proposing to disestablish ANDC @ozworders.bsky.social. Over the last 20 years of writing I've often consulted staff over the origins of obscure words and phrases. We need the dictionary to record and explain our changing language. www.smh.com.au/national/fro...
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TIL (on mastodon) that the US National Park Service has crochet patterns!
www.nps.gov/articles/000...
www.nps.gov/articles/000...
Halibut Crochet Pattern (U.S. National Park Service)
www.nps.gov
July 11, 2025 at 8:22 PM
TIL (on mastodon) that the US National Park Service has crochet patterns!
www.nps.gov/articles/000...
www.nps.gov/articles/000...
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With Glitch closing down, I've moved my micro app that helps you create persistent links into the National Archives of Australia's RecordSearch database: https://wraggelabs.com/recordsearch-links/ #archives #histodons #maintenance
Create persistent links in RecordSearch
wraggelabs.com
July 3, 2025 at 5:13 AM
With Glitch closing down, I've moved my micro app that helps you create persistent links into the National Archives of Australia's RecordSearch database: https://wraggelabs.com/recordsearch-links/ #archives #histodons #maintenance
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The Swedish National Archives shared 1.2m images of handwritten documents from 1600-1900+
In addition, they share a model for writing to text
Such marvelous data opportunities, kudos
📈🤖🧠
medium.com/@linnea.karl...
Example:
sok.riksarkivet.se/om-soktjanst...
huggingface.co/datasets/Rik...
In addition, they share a model for writing to text
Such marvelous data opportunities, kudos
📈🤖🧠
medium.com/@linnea.karl...
Example:
sok.riksarkivet.se/om-soktjanst...
huggingface.co/datasets/Rik...
From handwriting to searchable text: using AI to make millions of historical documents accessible
In April 2025 the Swedish National Archives made 1,2 million digital images of archival documents into searchable, machine readable text —…
https://medium.com/@linnea.karlberg.lundin/from-handwriting-to-searchable-text-usi[…]o-make-millions-of-historical-documents-accessible-3431b9c2673c
June 26, 2025 at 1:56 PM
The Swedish National Archives shared 1.2m images of handwritten documents from 1600-1900+
In addition, they share a model for writing to text
Such marvelous data opportunities, kudos
📈🤖🧠
medium.com/@linnea.karl...
Example:
sok.riksarkivet.se/om-soktjanst...
huggingface.co/datasets/Rik...
In addition, they share a model for writing to text
Such marvelous data opportunities, kudos
📈🤖🧠
medium.com/@linnea.karl...
Example:
sok.riksarkivet.se/om-soktjanst...
huggingface.co/datasets/Rik...