MarkS
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One year ago we launched the MetaROR (MetaResearch Open Review) publish-review-curate platform. This has been one of the most exciting things I've been involved in over the past year.
Very grateful to everyone who has contributed to the development of MetaROR!
Very grateful to everyone who has contributed to the development of MetaROR!
🎈 Time flies! Exactly one year ago today @rorinstitute.bsky.social and @aimosinc.bsky.social launched MetaROR, a platform to publish metaresearch through the publish-review-curate approach.
Over the course of the year, we published 28 articles reviewed by 59 different reviewers.
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Over the course of the year, we published 28 articles reviewed by 59 different reviewers.
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MetaROR Turns One - MetaROR
An exciting year of open, community-driven evaluation of metaresearch One [...]
metaror.org
November 21, 2025 at 2:10 PM
One year ago we launched the MetaROR (MetaResearch Open Review) publish-review-curate platform. This has been one of the most exciting things I've been involved in over the past year.
Very grateful to everyone who has contributed to the development of MetaROR!
Very grateful to everyone who has contributed to the development of MetaROR!
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Here's our latest pyramid scheme.
September 11, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Here's our latest pyramid scheme.
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Madison, Minnesota
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August 21, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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CoAgMET---the Colorado Agricultural Meteorological network, aka Colorado's Mesonet---was recently recognized for over 30 years of data collection. Read more about the award and the network in this story from CSU Source. Here's to 30 more years of valuable weather and climate information! #cowx
CSU Colorado Mesonet recognized by American Association of State Climatologists for over thirty years of service - Walter Scott, Jr. College of Engineering
The Colorado Agricultural and Meteorological Network, known as CoAgMET, was recognized with the American Association of State Climatologists 30 Year Mesonet Award for contributing more than 30 years o...
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August 13, 2025 at 1:48 PM
CoAgMET---the Colorado Agricultural Meteorological network, aka Colorado's Mesonet---was recently recognized for over 30 years of data collection. Read more about the award and the network in this story from CSU Source. Here's to 30 more years of valuable weather and climate information! #cowx
New case study on the French National Library's use of archival resource keys for data discovery.
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Access to open data at the National Library of France using ARK variants
An early adopter of ARKs, the BnF has developed practices for displaying persistent linked open data (LOD) using ARK suffixes for object variants.
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July 29, 2025 at 4:28 PM
New case study on the French National Library's use of archival resource keys for data discovery.
arks.org/news/2025-07...
arks.org/news/2025-07...
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"Ardam was confronting a different, somewhat sensitive question about navigating a person’s digital history. When Sontag donated her laptop to the archive, did she realize how much she was giving away?" on archiving digital ephemera and culture -- www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...
Archivists Aren’t Ready for the ‘Very Online’ Era
The challenge: how to catalog and derive meaning from so much digital clutter
www.theatlantic.com
June 4, 2025 at 9:46 PM
"Ardam was confronting a different, somewhat sensitive question about navigating a person’s digital history. When Sontag donated her laptop to the archive, did she realize how much she was giving away?" on archiving digital ephemera and culture -- www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...
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I have a new radio documentary out this week on the BBC World Service, you can hear it here www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
The Documentary - America: The human plasma factory - BBC Sounds
Kathleen McLaughlin investigates the multibillion-dollar global plasma industry
www.bbc.co.uk
May 25, 2025 at 1:52 PM
I have a new radio documentary out this week on the BBC World Service, you can hear it here www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Imagining Elon Musk drooling at the prospect of feeding the entire Library of Congress into his plagiarism machine.
May 12, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Imagining Elon Musk drooling at the prospect of feeding the entire Library of Congress into his plagiarism machine.
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From 2024. Quite an interesting "deaccessioning" case. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/19/a...
To Sell Prized Paintings, a University Proclaims They’re Not ‘Conservative’
Valparaiso University is arguing it should never have acquired two paintings, including a Georgia O’Keeffe, in the 1960s. It hopes to sell them to pay for dorm renovations.
www.nytimes.com
May 1, 2025 at 4:56 PM
From 2024. Quite an interesting "deaccessioning" case. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/19/a...
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So pleased to see these go live - new workflows for digital preservation: one on emails and one (a bit more conceptual) on line of business systems: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-sec...
These should help you get your brain around steps and options in these format-specific headaches.
These should help you get your brain around steps and options in these format-specific headaches.
Preserving digital collections - Archives sector
Digital preservation is a vital issue for almost all archives and there is an increasing demand for storage of, and access to, digital information in a discoverable format. There is an expectation tha...
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
May 1, 2025 at 8:31 AM
So pleased to see these go live - new workflows for digital preservation: one on emails and one (a bit more conceptual) on line of business systems: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-sec...
These should help you get your brain around steps and options in these format-specific headaches.
These should help you get your brain around steps and options in these format-specific headaches.
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This is a very hard time to promote a book -- especially if you've written bestsellers critiquing the regime. If you've appreciated any of the work I've done, please share this and get the word out. Thank you!
My new book is out today! Order THE LAST AMERICAN ROAD TRIP here:
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The Last American Road Trip: A Memoir
A Memoir
bookshop.org
April 1, 2025 at 1:13 PM
This is a very hard time to promote a book -- especially if you've written bestsellers critiquing the regime. If you've appreciated any of the work I've done, please share this and get the word out. Thank you!
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NEW: A tiny team at PlayStation has preserved 650 terabytes (and counting) of PlayStation Studios' game-making history
- Release and pre-release builds of games, documentation, art, team photos, you name it.
- A GDC talk about it ended with a terrific revelation
www.gamefile.news/p/playstatio...
- Release and pre-release builds of games, documentation, art, team photos, you name it.
- A GDC talk about it ended with a terrific revelation
www.gamefile.news/p/playstatio...
PlayStation’s extraordinary effort to preserve its game-making history
1000+ PS5 builds, plus files from past PlayStation eras, back to Arc the Lad in 1994
www.gamefile.news
March 28, 2025 at 9:01 PM
NEW: A tiny team at PlayStation has preserved 650 terabytes (and counting) of PlayStation Studios' game-making history
- Release and pre-release builds of games, documentation, art, team photos, you name it.
- A GDC talk about it ended with a terrific revelation
www.gamefile.news/p/playstatio...
- Release and pre-release builds of games, documentation, art, team photos, you name it.
- A GDC talk about it ended with a terrific revelation
www.gamefile.news/p/playstatio...
We just launched a 16TB archive of every dataset that has been available on data.gov since November. This will be updated day by day as new datasets appear. It can be freely copied, and we're sharing the code behind it to help others make their own archives of data they depend on.
Announcing the Data.gov Archive | Library Innovation Lab
Today we released our archive of data.gov on Source Cooperative. The 16TB collection includes over 311,000 datasets harvested during 2024 and 2025, a complet...
lil.law.harvard.edu
February 7, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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You can watch the Trump administration play DEI whac-a-mole with employee policies and public websites on GitHub, which is automatically cataloguing all of the changes the 18F agency is frantically making to its internal and external webpages […]
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January 23, 2025 at 8:21 PM
You can watch the Trump administration play DEI whac-a-mole with employee policies and public websites on GitHub, which is automatically cataloguing all of the changes the 18F agency is frantically making to its internal and external webpages […]
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after days of grifters and con men at CES we stumbled upon the booth for VLC. they were all dressed as wizards and told us, "we have nothing to sell, we just decided to show up". i told them I'd been using their software to pirate media for 15 years and they said "keep doing that"
January 10, 2025 at 9:24 PM
after days of grifters and con men at CES we stumbled upon the booth for VLC. they were all dressed as wizards and told us, "we have nothing to sell, we just decided to show up". i told them I'd been using their software to pirate media for 15 years and they said "keep doing that"
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Recruiting for Cultural Competency: A Content Analysis of Archives Job Postings
I'm thrilled to announce that the new issue of The American Archivist contains a brand new article by Helen Wong Smith, Dawn Schmitz, Cyndi Shein, and Lisa Schmitz: Recruiting for Cultural Competency: A Content…
I'm thrilled to announce that the new issue of The American Archivist contains a brand new article by Helen Wong Smith, Dawn Schmitz, Cyndi Shein, and Lisa Schmitz: Recruiting for Cultural Competency: A Content…
Recruiting for Cultural Competency: A Content Analysis of Archives Job Postings
I'm thrilled to announce that the new issue of The American Archivist contains a brand new article by Helen Wong Smith, Dawn Schmitz, Cyndi Shein, and Lisa Schmitz: Recruiting for Cultural Competency: A Content Analysis of Archives Job Postings This team of authors used Archives Gig as a resource for their analysis, and I'm so excited to read their piece. I'm so happy that AG has contributed in some small way to the evolving literature and study in this field.
archivesgig.com
January 8, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Recruiting for Cultural Competency: A Content Analysis of Archives Job Postings
I'm thrilled to announce that the new issue of The American Archivist contains a brand new article by Helen Wong Smith, Dawn Schmitz, Cyndi Shein, and Lisa Schmitz: Recruiting for Cultural Competency: A Content…
I'm thrilled to announce that the new issue of The American Archivist contains a brand new article by Helen Wong Smith, Dawn Schmitz, Cyndi Shein, and Lisa Schmitz: Recruiting for Cultural Competency: A Content…
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Applications now open for @atbw.bsky.social’s Web Archiving School. We’re recruiting fellows, instructors, and teaching assistants. Everyone is paid. Apply by January 31st, 2025. www.archivingtheblackweb.org/warc-school/
WArc School – ATBW
www.archivingtheblackweb.org
December 28, 2024 at 4:26 PM
Applications now open for @atbw.bsky.social’s Web Archiving School. We’re recruiting fellows, instructors, and teaching assistants. Everyone is paid. Apply by January 31st, 2025. www.archivingtheblackweb.org/warc-school/
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Averting the Digital Dark Age: How Archivists, Librarians, and Technologists Built the Web a Memory is released _today_.
You can buy a copy, or, you can read it FOR FREE via Project MUSE. Please spread the news to your colleagues, your friends, your syllabus makers.
muse.jhu.edu/book/123276
You can buy a copy, or, you can read it FOR FREE via Project MUSE. Please spread the news to your colleagues, your friends, your syllabus makers.
muse.jhu.edu/book/123276
December 10, 2024 at 1:39 PM
Averting the Digital Dark Age: How Archivists, Librarians, and Technologists Built the Web a Memory is released _today_.
You can buy a copy, or, you can read it FOR FREE via Project MUSE. Please spread the news to your colleagues, your friends, your syllabus makers.
muse.jhu.edu/book/123276
You can buy a copy, or, you can read it FOR FREE via Project MUSE. Please spread the news to your colleagues, your friends, your syllabus makers.
muse.jhu.edu/book/123276
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As a historian who focuses on historical texts and has done a lot of work with offensive historical texts in particular, this paper on a process to 'detoxify' historical texts so they can be used to train LLMs for contemporary applications was very interesting! +
arxiv.org/abs/2410.22587
arxiv.org/abs/2410.22587
Toxicity of the Commons: Curating Open-Source Pre-Training Data
Open-source large language models are becoming increasingly available and popular among researchers and practitioners. While significant progress has been made on open-weight models, open training dat...
arxiv.org
December 6, 2024 at 1:36 PM
As a historian who focuses on historical texts and has done a lot of work with offensive historical texts in particular, this paper on a process to 'detoxify' historical texts so they can be used to train LLMs for contemporary applications was very interesting! +
arxiv.org/abs/2410.22587
arxiv.org/abs/2410.22587