Laura J. Wilkinson @ljw@qoto.org
Experienced practitioner of info & library management, research publishing, teaching & learning, and knowledge workflows. Live adventurously!
Joined Aug 2018
Towards Sustainable Open Access Book Publishing in the African Context: Workshop Programme
A three day workshop hosted by the University of Cape Town exploring how to build a more sustainable future for Open Access book publishing in the African continent
by Judith Fathallah
Barricading an open access website – reflections on the attack on DOAB
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I have closed
the tabs
that were in
your firefox
and which
you were probably
saving
for reading
forgive me
they were annoying
so many
and so old
"How can institutions increase engagement with open scholarship practices?" by Andrea Chiarelli
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-can-institutions-increase-engagement-open-andrea-chiarelli-8zrbe/
Finished making a skulls & roses 
version of this dress pattern - good instructions and video tutorial
https://ikatee.fr/products/patron-de-couture-toronto-femme-robe-32-52-pdf
Quote:
[@RonaldSnijder] is an example of a researcher developing tools for the sake of improving scholarly communication. As an experienced software developer, he has a background in social sciences. Although his work has an impact on scholarly communication practices, it would not be considered by the evaluation systems in academia. Should we advocate for changing that? At the OPERAS Innovation Lab we answer “yes”
How to evaluate innovation in the humanities?
https://lab.operas-eu.org/2024/01/24/how-to-evaluate-innovation-in-the-humanities/
"Stop Talking to Each Other and Start Buying Things: Three Decades of Survival in the Desert of Social Media... I bet you're wondering how we got here..."
by Catherynne M. Valente
https://catvalente.substack.com/p/stop-talking-to-each-other-and-start
"Americans Are Fake and the Dutch Are Rude!"
by Batja Mesquita
https://behavioralscientist.org/americans-are-fake-and-the-dutch-are-rude/
What we learned about managing a Mastodon server in the first year of hcommons.social
by @dimitris
Open Infrastructures and the Future of Knowledge Production, part 2
by @kfitz
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"On the matter of the British Library cyber incident" by Ciaran Martin
https://ciaranmartin.substack.com/p/on-the-matter-of-the-british-library
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@rmi I created this meme forever ago to describe the devolution of information security, feel free to frame it
1970s & 1980s: Our mission is to achieve deterministic security and deductive, proof-based certainty of that security in our systems.
2010s & 2020s: Our hope rests in stopping laypeople from clicking on things on the thing-clicking machine.
Work soundtrack this morning: Aotearoa (New Zealand) birdsong from @audiosampling https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/newZealandSoundscapeGenerator.php
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Really excited to have a number of blog posts out today!
First of these is a brief recap on the Thoth Publishers' Workshop held on Nov 16, 2023
We're grateful for all participating publishers, and are looking forward to more workshops to discuss publishers' needs in the context of #OAbooks #metadata creation, management and dissemination, as well as archiving options for small and #scholarled presses and publishing initiatives that otherwise wouldn't have an option to cover these topics.
https://copim.pubpub.org/pub/thoth-publishers-workshop-2023/release/1
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Private Eye have just made their Post Office Horizons report available online - for free.
https://www.private-eye.co.uk/special-reports/justice-lost-in-the-post
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a sorry tale of the UK government’s consultation on metric/imperial units
https://kityates.substack.com/p/imperial-ruled-out
Experienced practitioner of info & library management, research publishing, teaching & learning, and knowledge workflows. Live adventurously!
Joined Aug 2018
