Why Nature will not allow the use of generative AI in images and video
Saying ‘no’ to this kind of visual content is a question of research integrity, consent, privacy and intellectual-property protection.
Check out the latest update from BAD Project Technical Lead, Kathryn Napier: 'The Book Analytics Dashboard Project: Reflections on Coordination, Collaboration, and Community Consultation': https://openknowledge.community/the-book-analytics-dashboard-project-reflections-on-coordination-collaboration-and-community-consultation/
John Willinsky of the Public Knowledge Project (who run OJS) gives us a sneak preview of the Publication Facts Label, part of their Journal Integrity Initiative. Aims to be an industry standard, using the US nutrition facts label as a model.
Proposes a button, like CrossMark, that will show metadata about the journal, e.g., publisher, editors, acceptance rate, indexing, and article, e.g., peer reviewers, COIs, data sharing, funding.
If you plan to organize a hybrid/in person conference, do it like @EASE :have some real off-line cats in the room and zoom the camera on them for online audience too #CatsOfMastodon #easeevents #scholarlyPublishing
The famous Istanbul cats have joined the EASE conference.
🇹🇷 🐱 🐈 😍
via https://twitter.com/EASEeditors/status/1664178541141819392 and
https://twitter.com/pippasmart/status/1664178140065718274
Some personal news: I'm really excited to share that as of today, and after having served @copim as Project Manager for more than three years, I'm now joining @Thoth_metadata as COO (apparently that is a thing?) & Product Manager 👋
In the coming months and years, we'll be working to bring fully open, #CC0-licensed #metadata for #OAbooks to more publishers, including those involved with the lovely folks over at Open Book Collective (@openbookcollect@twitter.com, who will also soon be joining the #fediverse, I hear), while also expanding our range of open #metadata output formats, further developing the Thoth Archiving Network (#archiving & #preservation), and working to further improve #accessibility and #bibliodiversity aspects of Thoth via our participation in the Open Book Futures project (aka. our next phase of COPIM) ... it's definitely not going to be boring! 😄
Why we shouldn’t hold referendums
by Tim Harford
https://timharford.com/2023/05/why-we-shouldnt-hold-referendums/
LLMs are modeling outputs, not replicating a process, as a result the output looks the same but it isn't made of the same stuff.
It is a plastic banana.
There is nothing inherently wrong with a plastic banana but as soon as you claim you can use it to solve world hunger people are going to be upset and it doesn't matter how much it looks right.
UKRI has published its latest open access policy implementation update https://www.ukri.org/news/ukri-updates-guidance-for-open-access-policy/ #openaccess #UKRI
Open Institutional Publishing Association: Introducing a New Community of Practice
Have happened upon a wonderful website of Bayeux museum, where you can see the whole tapestry scene by scene, and zoom in to see details of stitching. There’s a translation if the Latin too, in a sidebar. Wonderful ! #tapestry #history
https://www.bayeuxmuseum.com/en/the-bayeux-tapestry/discover-the-bayeux-tapestry/explore-online/
English has two different terms for words that come into English from other languages. A 'calque' is translated from the source language. (E.g., flea market, beer garden, paper tiger) A 'loanword' is ported in its original form. (E.g., cafe, bazaar, kindergarten) Perhaps ironically, the word 'calque' is a loanword, while 'loanword' is a calque (from Ger. 'lehnwort').
The never-ending brilliance of board games
by Tim Harford
https://timharford.com/2023/05/the-never-ending-brilliance-of-board-games/
Books in a bubble: Assessing the OAPEN Library collection
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