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Jen
@metadatasaurus.bsky.social
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mostly eclectic weirdness. and awkwardness, too. Maybe cat photos.

The Toast lurker-enjoyer in my former life.
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bibliowingate.bsky.social
If we put half as much resources into metadata and cataloging as we do into dumb AI stuff, we’d way better off in terms of the info/data ecosystem
crossref.bsky.social Crossref @crossref.bsky.social · Oct 23
Panel at #Crossref2025 wonders if metadata has an image problem. Bianca Kramer says the word metadata not used in the Barcelona Declaration. Mariángela Napoli thinks perception of metadata is something too technical. Kazuhiro Hayashi describes metadata as "the unsung hero". Time for a rebrand ;)
October 23, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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ianmilligan1.bsky.social
Was honoured to be part of this series, and to see so many thoughtful perspectives on this question! Check it out.
harvardlil.bsky.social Library Innovation Lab @harvardlil.bsky.social · Oct 15
LIL fellow @maxy.bsky.social asked 14 scholars, archivists, designers, business leaders & engineers: "If you were given unlimited funding to design a system for storing and preserving digital information for at least a century, what would you do?"

Their answers:
lil.law.harvard.edu/generational...
Generational Data Interviews | Library Innovation Lab
14 Designs for Digital Preservation in 2025
lil.law.harvard.edu
October 16, 2025 at 12:07 AM
metadatasaurus.bsky.social
My brain at 1:30 AM after wind-down and quiet time that began 3 and 1/2 hours prior:
October 15, 2025 at 3:51 PM
metadatasaurus.bsky.social
Posting a cat picture instead of yelling on the internet about things. You're welcome.
Closeup of the face of a black and white or tuxedo colored cat with her ears pointed very straight up. She looks surprised or maybe confused.
October 15, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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chron.com
The sanctuary supports more than 300 bird species from around the world.
Texas bird sanctuary faces development unless $3M is raised
The sanctuary supports more than 300 bird species from around the world.
bit.ly
August 23, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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freadomfighters.bsky.social
Parent advocate and @txfreedomread.bsky.social co-founder explains why #txlege bills SB13 and HB3225 are problems for our students and their libraries. It makes no distinction between five year olds and high school students. Please call. youtu.be/rtZMtq9qAPs
Texas Press Conference for the Freedom to Read, May 19
YouTube video by technolibrary
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May 25, 2025 at 7:04 PM
metadatasaurus.bsky.social
LOL.
chron.com Chron.com @chron.com · May 25
A cold front is likely to push into Texas on Sunday, bringing storms and possible severe weather to much of the Lone Star State on Memorial Day.
Texas cold front threatens hail for holiday weekend
A cold front is likely to push into Texas on Sunday, bringing storms and possible severe weather to much of the Lone Star State on Memorial Day.
bit.ly
May 25, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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bookqueer.bsky.social
At my library, our digital collections budget is astronomical precisely because of this- we pay multiple times more per ebook than what the average reader pays by design. What should be a godsend to making books easier to read and more accessible instead threatens to swallow our budget whole 🧵
archive.org Internet Archive @archive.org · Apr 23
“RAISE HELL!” ✊ Maria Bustillos (@mariabustillos.bsky.social) calls on writers & readers to defend libraries & demand ebook ownership, not rentals. Attacks on libraries are attacks on knowledge itself. 📚

Full video ➡️ youtu.be/lu8jK_27vF0

#LibraryAdvocacy #DigitalRights #InternetArchive
April 23, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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mckelvie.bsky.social
This is where your Harry Potter money goes
sloanelysbeth.bsky.social รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ 🏳️‍🌈 @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · Nov 26
jk rowling funded a case going before the supreme court that argues it should be legal to discriminate against and persecute trans ppl.

yet still we have to listen to ‘centrists’ claiming she isn’t bigoted she just has ‘a difference of opinion’.

no trans ppl have a voice in these proceedings.
April 16, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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mrcwarwick.bsky.social
'From Easter Rising to Civil War: Ireland, 1916-1922'

Browse 82 pamphlets, reports, leaflets and postcards relating to the 1916 Easter Rising, Irish War of Independence and Irish Civil War.

Free and digitised in full at cdm21047.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...
Screenshot of the home page for 'From Easter Rising to Civil War: Ireland, 1916-1922', part of Warwick Digital Collections. It includes a photograph of Dublin, partly in ruins, with trams and carts crossing a bridge, and people gathering. Front page of booklet: "The "Sinn Féin" REVOLT ILLUSTRATED. PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY HELY'S LIMITED, DAME STREET &: ACME WORKS, DUBLIN. PRICE ONE SHILLING. [ photograph of O'Connell Bridge & Sackville St. Dublin.]" Front page of Labour Party leaflet, 1921: "THE STRANGLING OF IRELAND An Appeal to British Women BY A British Woman. OUR RESPONSIBILITY. It is a pity that every British woman — Welsh, Scottish, and English — cannot go to Ireland and see for herself the abomination of British rule there. This cannot be. But ignorance of the facts cannot be accepted as an excuse for indifference. Quite enough has been published in all reputable newspapers to show British women that what the Government calls "law and order" in Ireland is in fact "anarchy and terrorism." The whole world is looking on in disgusted horror. Irish men and women can and will accept no plea of ignorance. British women, unless they stand out for justice and humanity in Ireland, will be branded before the world, and in the long memories of the Irish people, as callous or cruel, deaf to the call of liberty, narrow-minded, and slothful. If we keep silence, we tacitly condone the atrocities ordered or allowed by our Government. If we support the Government we are guilty in the first degree. Great Britain has for centuries ruled Ireland by force against the will of the enormous majority of the people. This, no doubt, is one of the reasons of our indifference to the wrongs of Ireland. They are so old! But every generation in turn is responsible for the wrongs done in its time, and the horror of wrong for which we, now living, are responsible in Ireland has never been surpassed. What is the state of affairs? TERRORISM. There have been many repetitions of sacking, looting, arson, and murder during the centuries of British rule in Ireland, but never worse than what has taken place during the past two years, with ever-increasing violence, culminating in the burning down of a large portion of Cork's main street, its Town Hall, and Carnegie Library." Front cover of printed report: "THE AMERICAN COMMISSION ON CONDITIONS IN IRELAND INTERIM REPORT (BRITISH EDITION) Price ONE Shilling (Post Free is. 3d.) HARDING & MORE LTD. 119 HIGH HOLBORN LONDON, W.C.1 1921"
April 16, 2025 at 11:54 AM
metadatasaurus.bsky.social
An angry piece of cinnamon toast crunch cereal asks "What the cinnamon toast fuck"
March 21, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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bookjockeyalex.bsky.social
IMLS also only makes up 0.005% of the federal budget. Anyone claiming they're saving the government money or making things more efficient by cutting IMLS is lying through their teeth.
March 20, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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xavierresists.bsky.social
Good time for a reminder:
February 9, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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wandot.bsky.social
🏳️‍🌈LGBTQ Her/His-Story for February 9th - click on photos to read more.
02-09-1874 - 05-12-1925 Amy Lowell - Born in Brookline, Massachusetts. She was an American poet of the imagist school. Lowell never attended college because her family considered it improper for a woman to do so. On her own, she became an avid reader and a book collector. Lowell lived as a socialite and became a world traveler. In 1902, after seeing a performance of Eleonora Duse in Europe, she began to write poetry. It was known that Lowell was a lesbian, and in 1912, she began a relationship with actress Ada Dwyer Russell. Lowell’s poems about Dwyer have been called the most explicit and elegant lesbian love poetry during the time between Sappho and the poets of the 1970s. The two women lived together for over a decade until Lowell’s death in 1925. Lowell posthumously won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1926. 02-09-1938 - 12-31-2012 Jovette Marchessault - Born in Montreal, Quebec. She was a Canadian writer, poet, artist, and an important pioneer of lesbian and feminist literature and art in Canada. In 1980, with the publication of Triptyque lesbien, she risked her developing career by becoming the first Quebec novelist to declare her lesbianism. A portrait of Marchessault, by artist Robert Laliberté, is on exhibit in the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives’ National Portrait Collection, in honor of her role as a builder of LGBT culture and history in Canada. 02-09-1944 Alice Walker - Born in Putnam County, Georgia. She is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, and activist. She wrote the novel The Color Purple (1982) which won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. She was the youngest of eight children. Walker began writing when she was eight years old. “With my family, I had to hide things,” she said, “And I had to keep a lot in my mind.” In 1952 she was wounded in the right eye by a shot from a BB gun fired by one of her brothers. Because the family didn’t have a car, her parents couldn’t take her to the hospital. It was a week later before she saw a doctor and by that time she became permanently blind in that eye. Stared at and sometimes taunted, she felt like an outcast and turned for solace to reading and to writing poetry. The scar tissue was removed when she turned 14. She later became valedictorian and was voted most-popular girl, as well as queen of her senior class. Her injury allowed her to “really see people and things, really notice relationships and to learn to be patient enough to care about how they turned out.” In 1965, she met Melvyn Postman Leventhal, a Jewish civil rights lawyer. They were married in 1967, in New York City. Later that year the couple relocated to Jackson, Mississippi, becoming “the first legally married interracial couple in Mississippi”. They were harassed and threatened by whites, including the KKK. The couple had a daughter, Rebecca, in 1969. Walker and her husband divorced in 1976. In the mid-1990s, she was involved in a romantic relationship with singer Tracy Chapman. “It was delicious and lovely and wonderful and I totally enjoyed it and I was completely in love with her but it was nobody’s business but ours.” Walker wrote, “At one point I learned Transcendental Meditation. This was 30-something years ago. I was in that state on oneness with creation and it was as if I didn’t exist except as a part of everything.” 02-09-1941 Sheila Kuehl - Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She is best known for her role as Zelda Gilroy on the TV show The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis which aired on CBS from 1959 to 1963. She was also in the television series The Stu Erwin Show (also known as Trouble with Father) from 1950 to 1955. Her father was Catholic and her mother was Jewish. She was a member of the California State Assembly from 1994-2000 and California State Senate from 2000-2008. She the first openly gay member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors from District 3 and assumed office on December 1, 2014. In her fourteen years in the State Legislature, she authored 171 bills that were signed into law, including legislation to establish paid family leave, establish the rights contained in Roe vs. Wade in California statute, overhaul California’s child support services system; establish nurse to patient ratios in every hospital; further protect domestic violence victims and their children; prohibit discrimination on the basis of gender and disability in the workplace and sexual orientation in education; safeguard the environment and drinking water; and many other bills that protected the people of California. She is an advocate of single-payer health care.
February 9, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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betterthansects.bsky.social
Preserving digital archives is a crucial weapon in discrediting and defeating authoritarian regimes. foreignpolicy.com/2025/01/24/r...
Don’t Let Autocrats Erase the Internet
Preserving digital archives is a crucial weapon in discrediting and defeating authoritarian regimes.
foreignpolicy.com
February 9, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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saa-snap.bsky.social
Introducing: SNAP Show and Tell

Have you ever come across something in the archives that made you stop in your tracks? Whether it was an unexpected document, a fascinating artifact, or a story hidden in the records, we want to hear about it! For our new SNAP blog series, SNAP Show and Tell, we’re…
Introducing: SNAP Show and Tell
Have you ever come across something in the archives that made you stop in your tracks? Whether it was an unexpected document, a fascinating artifact, or a story hidden in the records, we want to hear about it! For our new SNAP blog series, SNAP Show and Tell, we’re inviting students and new professionals to share one cool thing they’ve discovered in the archives.
snaproundtable.wordpress.com
February 9, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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stegan.bsky.social
I’m not saying this isn’t believable, but given this administration’s obsession with websites, it’s weird that Dr. Shogan is still listed on the NARA site and there hasn’t been an actual announcement.
February 6, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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archive.org
Remember Blockbuster? 📼📀 Once, there were over 9,000 stores across the globe; now only one remains. 🌎️ Blockbuster․com too is a shadow of its former self.
Explore the web's past with the #WaybackMachine ➡️ https://web.archive.org

#DotComEra #DigitalHistory #90snostaliga
Wayback Machine captures of the Blockbuster video rental site on December 24, 1996 and January 17, 2025.
February 5, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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artologica.net
After hours at the Treasury Department with Elon and the DOGE boys
B&W film still from Ivan the Terrible: courtiers pour coins over the head of the Tsar
February 3, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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hogsy.me
For those that didn't know, we run a public archive of pre-release content for various games via archive.thedatadungeon.com which may be of interest to some! We also have an archive of technical documentation we're gradually building via library.thedatadungeon.com

#digipres #digitalpreservation
Root
archive.thedatadungeon.com
January 31, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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thomasfortenberry.bsky.social
January 26, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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quinnanya.me
Worried about how long your favorite art, stories, videos, and other media will remain online? You can do something about it. Archive it, put it on a flash drive, share it. Digital things are fragile, but you don't need serious tech skills to protect the digital things you care about. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈
January 22, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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mrcwarwick.bsky.social
70 North American archives / library special collections have now made the move to Bluesky - from medieval manuscripts to zines

Help them build up their communities here and reconnect - you'll get excellent archive content in return!

go.bsky.app/MN9ZZ3M
January 20, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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boozybadger.lawyersandliquor.com
On another note, if you know how to read script the National Archives could use your help transcribing documents because it’s apparently a skill that is going away since we don’t rely on handwriting much in the modern day.

www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
Can you read cursive? It's a superpower the National Archives is looking for.
The National Archives looking for volunteers with an increasingly rare skill: Reading cursive.
www.usatoday.com
January 12, 2025 at 7:15 PM
metadatasaurus.bsky.social
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jameselder.bsky.social James Elder @jameselder.bsky.social · Jan 4
This is a good piece in some respects but a DVD collection comprising titles since deleted and not available to stream is not an ‘archive’ and neither does it truly count as ‘preservation’.

For that we still need, collectively, to pay professionals to look after original film and tape masters.
newyorker.com The New Yorker @newyorker.com · Jan 3
Richard Brody on why DVD owners shouldn’t throw out their collections just yet.
January 4, 2025 at 4:22 PM